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International Journal of Rheumatology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 401890, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/401890
Clinical Study

IgG4-Related Perineural Disease

Dai Inoue,1,2 Yoh Zen,3 Yasuharu Sato,4 Hitoshi Abo,2 Hiroshi Demachi,2 Akio Uchiyama,5 Toshifumi Gabata,1 and Osamu Matsui1

1Department of Radiology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa 920-8641, Japan
2Department of Radiology, Toyama Prefectural Central Hospital, Toyama 930-8550, Japan
3Institute of Liver Studies, King’s College Hospital, London 5E5 9RS, UK
4Department of Pathology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
5Department of Pathology, Toyama Prefectural Central Hospital, Toyama 930-8550, Japan

Received 24 November 2011; Accepted 13 January 2012

Academic Editor: John H. Stone

Copyright © 2012 Dai Inoue et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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