Unicentric Castleman's disease approached as a pancreatic neoplasm: case report and review of literature

Castleman's disease is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder. Most cases occur in the mediastinum and the pancreatic localization is uncommon; currently there are only nine reported cases in the literature about peripancreatic localization. We report a case of a 62 years old man with a Castleman&...

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Autores principales: Petrina, Adolfo, Eugeni, Emilio, Badolato, Marco, Boselli, Carlo, Covarelli, Piero, Rondelli, Fabio, Noya, Giuseppe
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20062727
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9090
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Sumario:Castleman's disease is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder. Most cases occur in the mediastinum and the pancreatic localization is uncommon; currently there are only nine reported cases in the literature about peripancreatic localization. We report a case of a 62 years old man with a Castleman's disease mimicking a pancreatic neoplasm.

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