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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author Petrina, Adolfo
Eugeni, Emilio
Badolato, Marco
Boselli, Carlo
Covarelli, Piero
Rondelli, Fabio
Noya, Giuseppe
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Eugeni, Emilio
Badolato, Marco
Boselli, Carlo
Covarelli, Piero
Rondelli, Fabio
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description 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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spelling pubmed-28038872010-01-10 Unicentric Castleman's disease approached as a pancreatic neoplasm: case report and review of literature Petrina, Adolfo Eugeni, Emilio Badolato, Marco Boselli, Carlo Covarelli, Piero Rondelli, Fabio Noya, Giuseppe Cases J Case Report 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. BioMed Central 2009-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC2803887/ /pubmed/20062727 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9090 Text en Copyright ©2009 Petrina et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Petrina, Adolfo
Eugeni, Emilio
Badolato, Marco
Boselli, Carlo
Covarelli, Piero
Rondelli, Fabio
Noya, Giuseppe
Unicentric Castleman's disease approached as a pancreatic neoplasm: case report and review of literature
title Unicentric Castleman's disease approached as a pancreatic neoplasm: case report and review of literature
title_full Unicentric Castleman's disease approached as a pancreatic neoplasm: case report and review of literature
title_fullStr Unicentric Castleman's disease approached as a pancreatic neoplasm: case report and review of literature
title_full_unstemmed Unicentric Castleman's disease approached as a pancreatic neoplasm: case report and review of literature
title_short Unicentric Castleman's disease approached as a pancreatic neoplasm: case report and review of literature
title_sort unicentric castleman's disease approached as a pancreatic neoplasm: case report and review of literature
topic Case Report
url 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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