Primary mediastinal Castleman's disease

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. It might be localized or multicentric and usually inv...

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Autores principales: Regal, Mohamed A.H, Aljehani, Yasser M, Bousbait, Hanan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PagePress 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2994491/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21139940
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2010.e11
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author Regal, Mohamed A.H
Aljehani, Yasser M
Bousbait, Hanan
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description 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. It might be localized or multicentric and usually involves the mediastinum. We report a case of Castleman's disease discovered accidentally in a case of blunt chest trauma which caused a challenging diagnostic process and management.
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spelling pubmed-29944912010-12-07 Primary mediastinal Castleman's disease Regal, Mohamed A.H Aljehani, Yasser M Bousbait, Hanan Rare Tumors Case Report 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. It might be localized or multicentric and usually involves the mediastinum. We report a case of Castleman's disease discovered accidentally in a case of blunt chest trauma which caused a challenging diagnostic process and management. PagePress 2010-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC2994491/ /pubmed/21139940 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2010.e11 Text en ©Copyright M.A.H. Regal et al., 2010 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (by-nc 3.0). Licensee PAGEPress, Italy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2994491/
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