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Case Report

Epidural spinal tumor and periaortitis as rare complications of Wegener’s granulomatosis

Shimpei KasagiDepartment of Clinical Pathology and Immunology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-Cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Jun SaegusaDepartment of Clinical Pathology and Immunology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-Cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan
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Goh TsujiDepartment of Clinical Pathology and Immunology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-Cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan
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Sho SendoDepartment of Clinical Pathology and Immunology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-Cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan
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Natsuko MiuraDepartment of Clinical Pathology and Immunology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-Cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan
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Hiroki HayashiDepartment of Clinical Pathology and Immunology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-Cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan
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Takeshi SugimotoDepartment of Clinical Pathology and Immunology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-Cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan
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Seiji KawanoDepartment of Clinical Pathology and Immunology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-Cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan
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Kotaro NishidaDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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Kenichiro KakutaniDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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Akio MorinobuDepartment of Clinical Pathology and Immunology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-Cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan
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Shunichi KumagaiDepartment of Clinical Pathology and Immunology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-Cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan
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Pages 678-683 | Received 24 Jan 2011, Accepted 05 Apr 2011, Published online: 02 Jan 2014

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