Immunoglobulin G4-related disease in genitourinary organs: An emerging fibroinflammatory entity often misdiagnosed preoperatively as cancer

European Urology

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 865-872

  Montironi, Rodolfo ^a   Scarpelli, Marina ^a   Cheng, Liang ^b   Lopez Beltran, Antonio ^c   Burattini, Maurizio ^d   Kirkali, Ziya ^e   Montorsi, Francesco ^f  

^a United Hospitals   (Italy)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Universidad de Cordoba   (Spain)

^d Carlo Urbani Hospital   (Italy)

^e DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; GLUCOCORTICOID;

AUTOIMMUNITY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 RELATED DISEASE; INFLAMMATION; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEMBRANOUS GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; NEOPLASM; NOTE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOTUMOR; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; STEROID THERAPY; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; FEMALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84887404873     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: 18737560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2012.11.056     Document Type: Editorial

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