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Case Report

A case of IgG4-related pulmonary disease with rapid improvement

Masataka UmedaDepartment of Rheumatology, Isahaya Health Insurance General Hospital, 24-1 Eishohigashi-machi, Isahaya, Nagasaki, Japan
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Keita FujikawaDepartment of Rheumatology, Isahaya Health Insurance General Hospital, 24-1 Eishohigashi-machi, Isahaya, Nagasaki, Japan
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Tomoki OriguchiDepartment of Rehabilitation Sciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8520, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Toshiaki TsukadaDepartment of Rheumatology, Isahaya Health Insurance General Hospital, 24-1 Eishohigashi-machi, Isahaya, Nagasaki, Japan
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Akira KondoDepartment of Respirology, Isahaya Health Insurance General Hospital, 24-1 Eishohigashi-machi, Isahaya, Nagasaki, Japan
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Shinya TomariDepartment of Respirology, Isahaya Health Insurance General Hospital, 24-1 Eishohigashi-machi, Isahaya, Nagasaki, Japan
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Yuichi InoueDepartment of Respirology, Isahaya Health Insurance General Hospital, 24-1 Eishohigashi-machi, Isahaya, Nagasaki, Japan
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Hisashi SodaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Isahaya Health Insurance General Hospital, 24-1 Eishohigashi-machi, Isahaya, Nagasaki, Japan
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Hideki NakamuraUnit of Translational Medicine, Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki, Japan
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Shoko MatsuiDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama, Japan
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Atsushi KawakamiUnit of Translational Medicine, Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki, Japan
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Pages 919-923 | Received 18 Nov 2011, Accepted 16 Jan 2012, Published online: 02 Jan 2014

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