Castleman disease as an unusual cause of ascites : Case report | ||
Medical Journal of Viral Hepatitis | ||
Article 1, Volume 6.2, Issue 2, April 2022, Pages 1-3 PDF (207.12 K) | ||
Document Type: Research articles | ||
DOI: 10.21608/mjvh.2022.234475 | ||
Authors | ||
Ahmed Ramadan* 1; Seham Seif1; Ahmed Eladl2; Nora Shaband3; Abdelfattah Abdalla4 | ||
1Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt | ||
2Pathology department, Mansoura university, Mansoura, Egypt. | ||
3Nuclear medicine and oncology department, mansura university, Mansoura, Egypt. | ||
4General surgery department, alazhar university, Egypt. | ||
Abstract | ||
Castleman disease (CD) is a collection of rare lymphoproliferative illnesses with similar lymph node histological findings. Castleman disease most commonly manifests with a hyperenhancing lymph nodal mass and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of lymphoma, metastatic adenopathy, infections or autoimmune diseases result in adenopathy. This disease includes a range of pathologic variants, including the Unicentric hyaline vascul type, plasma cell type and multicentric type and Castleman disease linked with human herpesvirus 8. | ||
Keywords | ||
Castleman disease; ascites; lymphoproliferative illnesses | ||
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