Fibrosing variant of Hashimoto thyroiditis is an IgG4 related disease

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 725-728

  Deshpande, Vikram ^a   Huck, Amelia ^a   Ooi, Esther ^b   Stone, John H ^a   Faquin, William C ^a   Nielsen, G Petur ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FIBROSING VARIANT OF HASHIMOTO THYROIDITIS; FIBROSIS; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THYROID FUNCTION TEST;

EID: 84864532348     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2011-200485     Document Type: Article

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