A new clinical entity: IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) discovered in the 21st century

Internal Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 821-822

  Umehara, Hisanori ^a  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune pancreatitis; IgG4 related disease; IgG4 related pulmonary disease; Mikulicz's disease; Pachymeningitis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4;

AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; EDITORIAL; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 RELATED DISEASE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MIKULICZ DISEASE; PLASMA CELL; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MIKULICZ' DISEASE;

EID: 84859833145     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.51.7223     Document Type: Editorial

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