IgG4-related disease: a primer on diagnosis and management.

Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol

Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergic and Immunological Disease, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Electronic address:

Published: June 2015

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