Castleman Disease Presenting with Jaundice: A Case with the Multicentric Hyaline Vascular Variant

Castleman disease (CD) is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder of unknown etiology with different clinical manifestations. A previous healthy 50 year-old man was hospitalized for right upper quadrant (RUQ) abdominal pain. He had jaundice and a 1 cm-sized lymph node in the right supraclavicular area....

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Autores principales: Park, Jun bean, Hwang, Jin Hyeok, Kim, Haeryoung, Choe, Hyung Sim, Kim, Yu Kyeong, Kim, Hong Bin, Bang, Soo-Mee
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2007
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687612/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17616028
http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2007.22.2.113
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Sumario:Castleman disease (CD) is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder of unknown etiology with different clinical manifestations. A previous healthy 50 year-old man was hospitalized for right upper quadrant (RUQ) abdominal pain. He had jaundice and a 1 cm-sized lymph node in the right supraclavicular area. Pancreas and biliary computed tomography (CT) showed masses at the right renal hilum and peripancreatic areas. Positron emission tomography (PET) showed widespread systemic lymphadenopathy. Excisional biopsy of the right supraclavicular node revealed a hyaline vascular variant of CD. Corticosteroid therapy was started and the extent of disease decreased. We here report a case of multicentric CD, the hyaline vascular variant, presenting with jaundice, diagnosed by excisional biopsy and successfully treated with corticosteroids.

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