Comprehensive diagnostic criteria for IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD), 2011

Umehara, Hisanori; Okazaki, Kazuichi; Masaki, Yasufumi; Kawano, Mitsuhiro; Yamamoto, Motohisa; Saeki, Takako; Matsui, Shoko; Yoshino, Tadashi; Nakamura, Shigeo; Kawa, Shigeyuki; Hamano, Hideaki; Kamisawa, Terumi; Shimosegawa, Toru; Shimatsu, Akira; Nakamura, Seiji; Ito, Tetsuhide; Notohara, Kenji; Sumida, Takayuki; Tanaka, Yoshiya; Mimori, Tsuneyo; Chiba, Tsutomu; Mishima, Michiaki; Hibi∥, Toshifumi; Tsubouchi, Hirohito; Inui, Kazuo; Ohara, Hirotaka

doi:10.3109/s10165-011-0571-z

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Comprehensive diagnostic criteria for IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD), 2011

Published in Modern Rheumatology • Feb 1, 2012

Authors:

Hisanori Umehara

Kazuichi Okazaki

Yasufumi Masaki

Abstract

IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a novel clinical disease entity characterized by elevated serum IgG4 concentration and tumefaction or tissue infiltration by IgG4+ plasma cells. Although IgG4-RD is not rare and is clinically important, its clinical diagnostic criteria have not been established. Com...

Subject

Medicine

IgG4-related disease

Internal medicine

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