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Asian J Surg
November 2024
Department of Urology, Hejiang County Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Luzhou, 646000, China.
Int J Surg Pathol
November 2024
Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Klinikum Fulda, Fulda, Germany.
We present a 55-year-old woman with a palpable mass in the right upper abdomen. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography showed a highly vascularized and primary resectable tumor of the spleen. We performed an open splenectomy with locoregional lymphadenectomy.
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December 2024
Santa Casa de Misericordia de Santos, Divisão de Urologia, Departamento de Cirurgia, Santos, São Paulo, Brazil; Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Metropolitana de Santos (UNIMES), Departamento de Urologia, Santos, São Paulo, Brazil.
Introduction And Importance: Retroperitoneal fibrosis is a proliferative disease of fibroblasts with a still unclear appearance and low incidence. The clinical manifestations are nonspecific and appear late, pain is the most common symptom present. Elevated serum IgG4 levels are observed in up to 60 % of the patients and the main goal of treating this condition is to preserve kidney function.
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September 2024
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is an immune disorder characterized by organ enlargement and fibrosis leading to functional impairment. Key immune cell subsets contributing to the pathogenesis of IgG4-RD include T follicular helper 2 cells (Tfh2), Tfh1, CX3CR1 + cytotoxic T cells (CX3CR1 + CTLs), Tregs and IgG4 + B cells. Tfh2 and Tregs are commonly involved in inducing IgG4 class-switching in this disease.
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