IgG4-related disease: Nomenclature, clinical features, and treatment

Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 177-190

  Stone, John H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmune; Chronic sclerosing; Fibrosis; ; IgG4 related disease; ; Pancreatitis; ; Retroperitoneal; Rituximab; Sialadenitis;

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; METHOTREXATE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; RITUXIMAB;

ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; BIOASSAY; BLOOD PROTEIN DISORDER; CELL INFILTRATION; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DACRYOCYSTITIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENDOCRINE OPHTHALMOPATHY; EOSINOPHIL; HEMOPTYSIS; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; HYPOPHYSITIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 RELATED DISEASE; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LACRIMAL DUCT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER DISEASE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOMA; MARGINAL ZONE LYMPHOMA; MIKULICZ DISEASE; NOMENCLATURE; ORBIT PSEUDOTUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOTUMOR; RETROPERITONEUM; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; SIALOADENITIS; SINUSITIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; THYROIDITIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, MURINE-DERIVED; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; B-LYMPHOCYTES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; MALE; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; SCLEROSIS; SIALADENITIS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84867453729     PISSN: 07402570     EISSN: 19301111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semdp.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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