Systemic immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4) disease and idiopathic orbital inflammation; removing ‘idiopathic’ from the nomenclature?

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Purpose of the study. To provide demographic, clinical, laboratory, ultrasound, radiological, morphological/ immunomorphological phenotype of IgG4-related ophthalmic diseases, which allowsmaking a differential diagnosis with granulomatous, autoimmune, inflammatory, endocrine and hematologic diseases affecting the eye and orbits. Materials and methods. From 2004 to 2016 108 (78.2%) of the 138 patients were diagnosed with non-tumoral lesions of eye and orbits. In 48 patients (35%) at admission ...

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Authors: Lindfield, D; Attfield, K; McElvanney, A

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Springer Nature [academic journals on nature.com]
• Journal: Eye
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 623-629
• Publication date: 2012-02-03
• DOI: 10.1038/eye.2012.4
• EISSN: 1476-5454
• ISSN: 0950-222X
• Language: English
• Keywords: Medicine; Inflammation; Dacryoadenitis; Disease; Expansive; Antibody; IgG4-related disease; Pathology; Immunology