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Primary biliary cirrhosis associated with idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis

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Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis (IRF) and primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) are distinct clinical disorders which rarely occur in the same patient. We report a 79-year-old man with the coexistence of both conditions. The patient had antibodies to both centromere and mitochondria, as indicated by indirect immunofluorescence. Diagnoses of IRF and PBC were confirmed histologically. Although the association between IRF and PBC is obscure, IRF may be involved in many autoimmune diseases associated with PBC.

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki Chuo National Hospital, 2-1001-1 Kubara, Omura 856-0835, Japan, , , , , , JP

    Saburo Shikuwa

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, Omura Municipal Hospital, Omura, Japan, , , , , , JP

    Masayuki Osabe, Masaya Yoshimura, Megumi Ohfukuji & Yusuke Takehara

  3. Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Nagasaki, Japan, , , , , , JP

    Katsuhisa Omagari, Yohei Mizuta, Kunihiko Murase, Hajime Isomoto & Shigeru Kohno

  4. Department of Pathology, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Nagasaki, Japan, , , , , , JP

    Masahiro Ito & Isao Shimokawa

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  1. Saburo Shikuwa
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Received: September 3, 1999 / Accepted: December 17, 1999

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Shikuwa, S., Omagari, K., Mizuta, Y. et al. Primary biliary cirrhosis associated with idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis. J Gastroenterol 35, 646–648 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s005350070067

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