Urethral caruncle: A lesion related to IgG4-associated sclerosing disease?

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 559-562

  Williamson, Sean R ^a   Scarpelli, Marina ^b   Lopez Beltran, Antonio ^c   Montironi, Rodolfo ^b   Conces, Miriam R ^a   Cheng, Liang ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^c Universidad de Cordoba   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASTIC LYMPHOMA KINASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; BENIGN TUMOR; BK VIRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROSARCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMA CELL; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCLEROSIS; URETHRA CARUNCLE; URETHRA TUMOR; VIRUS INFECTION; WART VIRUS;

BLADDER; GENITOURINARY PATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; UROGENITAL PATHOLOGY;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; PLASMA CELLS; POLYPS; URETHRA; URETHRAL DISEASES;

EID: 84879421693     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2012-201218     Document Type: Article

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