Relapse patterns in IgG4-related disease

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1755-

  Yamamoto, Motohisa ^a   Takahashi, Hiroki ^a   Ishigami, Keisuke ^a   Yajima, Hidetaka ^a   Shimizu, Yui ^a   Tabeya, Tetsuya ^a   Matsui, Mikiko ^a   Suzuki, Chisako ^a   Naishiro, Yasuyoshi ^a   Imai, Kohzoh ^b   Shinomura, Yasuhisa ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DACRYOCYSTITIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 RELATED DISEASE; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; LACRIMAL GLAND; LETTER; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG LESION; MIKULICZ DISEASE; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REFERENCE DATABASE; RELAPSE; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; SALIVARY GLAND; SIALOADENITIS; STEROID THERAPY; TREATMENT DURATION;

GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MIKULICZ' DISEASE; PREDNISOLONE; RECURRENCE;

EID: 84866055695     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2012-201694     Document Type: Letter

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