Multicentric Castleman’s Disease in a Child Revealed by Chronic Diarrhea [PDF]
Case Reports in Pediatrics, 2015 Multicentric Castleman’s disease is a rare benign and unexplained lymphoproliferative disorder that is extremely uncommon in children. It presents with fever, systemic symptoms, generalized lymphadenopathy, and laboratory markers of inflammation.
Sarra Benmiloud +3 more
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HIV-associated multicentric Castleman’s disease
Rare Tumors, 2012 Multicentric Castleman’s disease (MCD) is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder. It is found with higher frequency in patients with HIV infection, with systemic symptoms and poor prognosis.
Wilson Josè Couto +3 more
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Primary mediastinal Castleman’s disease
Rare Tumors, 2010 Castleman’s disease is a rare entity with an unknown etiology which was first described by Castleman in 1954. It is a lymphoproliferative disorder histologically classified into three types; hyaline-vascular, plasma cell type and mixed type.
Hanan Bousbait +2 more
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The diagnostic value of lymph node biopsy to detect Castleman’s disease [PDF]
Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2014 HIV is not indicated in the aetiology of Castleman’s disease. However, it impacts on the prevalence and natural history of this disease and significantly on the disease progression.
Prashilla Soma, Sita Kara
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A Case of Retroperitoneal Castleman’s Disease and an Update on the Latest Evidence [PDF]
Case Reports in Surgery, 2014 Castleman’s disease is a benign lymphoproliferative condition with three distinct histological subtypes. Clinically it presents in either a unicentric or multicentric manner and can affect various anatomic regions, the mediastinum being the most frequent
Eleftherios Spartalis +11 more
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Castleman’s Disease Presenting as a Parotid Mass in the Pediatric Population: A Report of 2 Cases [PDF]
Case Reports in Otolaryngology, 2015 Introduction. Angiofollicular lymph node hyperplasia (Castleman’s disease) is a nonmalignant lymphoproliferative disorder that generally involves the lymph nodes of young adults, most commonly in the mediastinum.
Sean W. Delaney +2 more
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Castleman’s disease – a case report
Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques, 2011 Angiofollicular lymphoid hyperplasia (Castleman’s disease) is a very rare disease of lymphatic tissue, manifested by overgrowth of B lymphocytes and plasma cells in lymph nodes.
Maciej Wilczak +2 more
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Pediatric Parapharyngeal Castleman’s Disease: a Case Report
Balkan Medical Journal, 2011 Castleman’s disease is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder of unknown aetiology. It has two clinical expressions. The localized form, which usually presents as a slow growing mass and the multicentric form, where tumoural involvement is multilocated ...
Fatih Erbey +4 more
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Anti-interleukin 6 receptor antibody tocilizumab reduces the level of serum hepcidin in patients with multicentric Castleman’s disease [PDF]
Haematologica, 2007 We report two cases of multicentric Castleman’s disease (MCD) whose serum hepcidin levels were rapidly down-regulated by administration of tocilizumab, an anti- interleukin 6 (IL-6) receptor antibody.
Hiroshi Kawabata +5 more
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Multicentric Castleman’s Disease, Associated with Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
Case Reports in Hematology, 2013 The most common cause of a neck mass in young adults is hyperplastic lymphadenopathy consequent to infection and inflammation. Castleman’s disease (CD), an unusual benign lymphoproliferative disorder, infrequently causes neck masses.
Ruchi Sood, Harris C. Taylor, Hamed Daw
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