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Background There are approximately 10,000 rare diseases that affect around 30,000,000 individuals in the U.S.A., most of which do not have an FDA-approved treatment.
Ania Korsunska +3 more
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Abdominal unicentric Castleman´s disease: a case report
Castleman´s disease is a rare disease characterized by benign lymphoepithelial proliferation. There are two forms: unicentric and multicentric Castleman´s disease. Mediastinal location is the most frequent.
Samir Bradai +9 more
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Castleman's disease, a type of lymph node hyperplasia, usually occurs in the mediastinum and rarely presents in the cervical region as an asymptomatic solitary mass. Clinically, they are of two types-solitary and multi-centric. Most of the solitary types are asymptomatic with no associated symptoms, whereas the multi-centric type is associated with ...
Srivastava, Himanshu +3 more
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Castleman and Towne described a disease presenting as a mediastinal mass resembling thymoma. It is also known as "giant lymph node hyperplasia", "lymph node hamartoma", "angiofollicular mediastinal lymph node hyperplasia", and "angiomatous lymphoid hyperplasia".
Saeed-Abdul-Rahman, Ibrahiem +1 more
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A 65 year old woman presented in February 1998 with joint pains, mild weight loss, and a low grade irregular fever. Initially, pain was localised around both shoulder joints. Subsequently, elbows, wrists, hips, and knees were affected, with morning stiffness, but without particular swelling. The symptoms were accentuated by movement, but also persisted
Riccio A +5 more
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To describe the two variants of Castleman's disease--the hyaline-vascular type and the plasma-cell type--and discuss the associated histologic features.We present a case of the hyaline-vascular type and review the literature.Castleman's disease was once thought to be localized and self-limited, but in recent years, reports have described a multicentric
H, Shahidi, J L, Myers, P A, Kvale
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Right-sided cheek mass in a 10-year-old male
Background: Castleman disease is a lymphoproliferative disorder that can present in multiple locations throughout the body. While considered a benign entity, Castleman disease in the pediatric head and neck can resemble other common childhood ...
John L. Wilson +3 more
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The Plasmablasts in Castleman Disease [PDF]
To the Editor In their article, Hsi et al1 described the broad spectrum of histopathologic features of Castleman disease (CD). We would like to report one additional peculiar case, rich in human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8)-infected plasmablasts (PBs), which we recently observed in our institution.
Fabio, Pagni +9 more
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It has been considered that idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease often involves pulmonary complications recognized as lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia.
Daijiro Nabeya +2 more
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Castleman disease in the scrotum
Castleman disease (CD) is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder that can affect any lymph node in the body, but CD occurring in the scrotum has not been reported to date. We report the case of a 79-year-old man with a painless hard mass in the right scrotum that has been gradually increasing in size for more than 1 year.
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