Gut Liver. 2013;7(5):616-20.
Immunoglobulin g4-related disease mimicking unresectable gallbladder cancer.
제1저자 이윤석 · 교신저자 이상협
소속 (1)
- Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seongnam, Korea.
Abstract
Immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4)-related disease is a novel disease entity that can involve diverse organs, causing specific diseases, including autoimmune pancreatitis, sclerosing cholangitis, cholecystitis, inflammatory aortic aneurysm, and inflammatory pseudotumor. IgG4-related disease is characterized by elevated serum IgG4 concentrations, abundant IgG4 lymphoplasmacytic infiltration, and dramatic steroid responses. It is clinically important to differentiate this rare disease from primary sclerosing cholangitis and cholangiocarcinoma, because the treatment and prognosis of these two diseases are completely different. However, the preoperative diagnosis is challenging, and the disease is frequently misdiagnosed. If the serum level of IgG4 is within the normal range, the diagnosis of IgG4-related disease is more difficult. This article reports on a 59-year-old man with IgG4-related disease mimicking unresectable gallbladder cancer with normal serum IgG4 concentrations.
Keywords
Cholangitis, sclerosingCholecystitisGallbladder neoplasmsImmunoglobuin G
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그림 출처: PubMed Central 공개 논문 (PMC3782679)
Conflict of interest statement
No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.
그 밖의 정보
- 출판 형태
- Journal Article
- 저널
- Gut and liver · ISSN 1976-2283
- 전자 출판
- 2013-09-11
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