New clues to the nature of immunoglobulin G4-related disease: a retrospective Japanese multicenter study of baseline clinical features of 334 cases

Abstract Background The aim was to further characterize immunoglobulin G4-related disease (IgG4-RD) by a large-scale multicenter study of its clinical and laboratory features conducted by multidisciplinary physicians of IgG4-RD in Japan. Methods Various specialists retrospectively evaluated IgG4-RD...

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Main Authors: Kazunori Yamada, Motohisa Yamamoto, Takako Saeki, Ichiro Mizushima, Shoko Matsui, Yuhei Fujisawa, Satoshi Hara, Hiroki Takahashi, Hideki Nomura, Shigeyuki Kawa, Mitsuhiro Kawano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-12-01
Series:Arthritis Research & Therapy
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13075-017-1467-x