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Granulomatous prostatitis linked to HLA-DRB1*1501.
The Journal of urology - 1 Jun 2004
Alexander Richard B, Mann Dean L, Borkowski Andrew A, Fernandez-Vina Marcelo, Klyushnenkova Elena N, Kodak James, Propert Kathleen J, Kincaid Marcie
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Granulomatous prostatitis is characterized by a pattern of granulomatous inflammation in the prostate. In most cases the etiology is unknown. Based on the hypothesis that granulomatous prostatitis may be an autoimmune disease we performed intermediate and selective high resolution typing of HLA-DR in a group of patients with the disease and compared the frequency of class II HLA phenotypes to that in a...
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