Castle man disease: a case report and review of the literature

The Castleman disease (CD) is a rare disease of unknown etiology, characterized histologically by angiofollicular lymphoid hyperplasia. It comes in two forms, unicentric and multicentric. We report a case of Castleman disease in a 58 year old man, who had consulted for chronic cervical lymphadenopat...

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Autores principales: Kettani, Mounir, Touiheme, Nabil, Attifi, Hicham, Hmidi, Mounir, Boukhari, Ali, Zalagh, Mohamed, Messary, Abdelhamid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4345227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25767650
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2014.19.130.5045
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author Kettani, Mounir
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Hmidi, Mounir
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Zalagh, Mohamed
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description The Castleman disease (CD) is a rare disease of unknown etiology, characterized histologically by angiofollicular lymphoid hyperplasia. It comes in two forms, unicentric and multicentric. We report a case of Castleman disease in a 58 year old man, who had consulted for chronic cervical lymphadenopathy. This case was a multicenteric and rapidly fatal despite aggressive treatment with corticosteroids, and chemotherapy
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spelling pubmed-43452272015-03-12 Castle man disease: a case report and review of the literature Kettani, Mounir Touiheme, Nabil Attifi, Hicham Hmidi, Mounir Boukhari, Ali Zalagh, Mohamed Messary, Abdelhamid Pan Afr Med J Case Report The Castleman disease (CD) is a rare disease of unknown etiology, characterized histologically by angiofollicular lymphoid hyperplasia. It comes in two forms, unicentric and multicentric. We report a case of Castleman disease in a 58 year old man, who had consulted for chronic cervical lymphadenopathy. This case was a multicenteric and rapidly fatal despite aggressive treatment with corticosteroids, and chemotherapy The African Field Epidemiology Network 2014-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4345227/ /pubmed/25767650 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2014.19.130.5045 Text en © Mounir Kettani et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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