IgG4-related disease in thymus. A very rare case of chronic fibrosis mimicking sarcoidosis.
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...It is variable for each organ, but a value higher than 40% is very suggestive of the diagnosis (4)....
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...fibrosis, dense plasmocitic IgG4-positive infiltrate, marked obliterative phlebitis, the presence of eosinophils, histiocytes, and Castleman-like lymphoid follicles, which fulfils all the criteria set at the 2011 Boston symposium (4)....
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...IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a multi-organ immunemediated chronic fibroinflammatory condition that was not recognized as a systemic entity until 2003 (1)....
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...Clinically, IgG4-RD could mimic other conditions, such as infections, tumors, inflammatory diseases, or other systemic disorders (3)....
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