Castleman's disease in childhood: report of three cases and review of the literature

Castleman's disease (CD) is a rare, localized or generalized, lymphoproliferative disorder with a frequent mediastinal location, but possible in any lymph node or extra nodal site. It usually appears in young adults whilst it rarely occurs in childhood. There are only about 100 pediatric cases...

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Autores principales: Farruggia, Piero, Trizzino, Antonino, Scibetta, Nunzia, Cecchetto, Giovanni, Guerrieri, Patrizia, D'Amore, Emanuele SG, D'Angelo, Paolo
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3219574/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22014148
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-37-50
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author Farruggia, Piero
Trizzino, Antonino
Scibetta, Nunzia
Cecchetto, Giovanni
Guerrieri, Patrizia
D'Amore, Emanuele SG
D'Angelo, Paolo
author_facet Farruggia, Piero
Trizzino, Antonino
Scibetta, Nunzia
Cecchetto, Giovanni
Guerrieri, Patrizia
D'Amore, Emanuele SG
D'Angelo, Paolo
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description Castleman's disease (CD) is a rare, localized or generalized, lymphoproliferative disorder with a frequent mediastinal location, but possible in any lymph node or extra nodal site. It usually appears in young adults whilst it rarely occurs in childhood. There are only about 100 pediatric cases published, five of them in Italy. We report 3 cases of localized Castleman's disease, investigated in our Department in a 3 years period and reviewed the literature.
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spelling pubmed-32195742011-11-18 Castleman's disease in childhood: report of three cases and review of the literature Farruggia, Piero Trizzino, Antonino Scibetta, Nunzia Cecchetto, Giovanni Guerrieri, Patrizia D'Amore, Emanuele SG D'Angelo, Paolo Ital J Pediatr Case Report Castleman's disease (CD) is a rare, localized or generalized, lymphoproliferative disorder with a frequent mediastinal location, but possible in any lymph node or extra nodal site. It usually appears in young adults whilst it rarely occurs in childhood. There are only about 100 pediatric cases published, five of them in Italy. We report 3 cases of localized Castleman's disease, investigated in our Department in a 3 years period and reviewed the literature. BioMed Central 2011-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3219574/ /pubmed/22014148 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-37-50 Text en Copyright ©2011 Farruggia 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.
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D'Amore, Emanuele SG
D'Angelo, Paolo
Castleman's disease in childhood: report of three cases and review of the literature
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