The pathology of IgG4-related disease: Critical issues and challenges

Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 191-196

  Deshpande, Vikram ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

ANCA related; Autoimmune; IgG4 related disease; ; IgG4; ; Inflammatory; Lymphoma; myofibroblastic; Pancreatitis; ; Pseudotumor; ; Tumor; ; Vasculitis;

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3D RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD PROTEIN DISORDER; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRITERION VARIABLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FIBROSIS; GOLD STANDARD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 RELATED DISEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; LYMPHOMA; MACROPHAGE; MICROSCOPIC POLYANGIITIS; PHLEBITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINDLE CELL CARCINOMA; T LYMPHOCYTE; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANTI-NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY-ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTES; NEOPLASMS; PLASMA CELLS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RECURRENCE;

EID: 84867474838     PISSN: 07402570     EISSN: 19301111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semdp.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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