An unusual cause of ascites: Castleman disease

BACKGROUND: Castleman disease (CD) is a group of rare lymphoproliferative diseases with common lymph node histological features that can easily be misdiagnosed as infections, multiple autoimmune diseases, and malignant tumors. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we report a rare case of a Chinese male with refr...

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Autores principales: Zhu, XiuLi, Chen, Si, Fang, Fang, Jia, Yong, Zhang, KaiGuang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8680332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34915856
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12876-021-02050-7
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author Zhu, XiuLi
Chen, Si
Fang, Fang
Jia, Yong
Zhang, KaiGuang
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Fang, Fang
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Zhang, KaiGuang
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description BACKGROUND: Castleman disease (CD) is a group of rare lymphoproliferative diseases with common lymph node histological features that can easily be misdiagnosed as infections, multiple autoimmune diseases, and malignant tumors. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we report a rare case of a Chinese male with refractory ascites for two years and was eventually diagnosed as CD. CONCLUSIONS: The challenges in diagnosis of CD arise from the large differential, clinical heterogeneity and our limited understanding of pathology. In case of rare ascites, CD needs to be considered.
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spelling pubmed-86803322021-12-20 An unusual cause of ascites: Castleman disease Zhu, XiuLi Chen, Si Fang, Fang Jia, Yong Zhang, KaiGuang BMC Gastroenterol Case Report BACKGROUND: Castleman disease (CD) is a group of rare lymphoproliferative diseases with common lymph node histological features that can easily be misdiagnosed as infections, multiple autoimmune diseases, and malignant tumors. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we report a rare case of a Chinese male with refractory ascites for two years and was eventually diagnosed as CD. CONCLUSIONS: The challenges in diagnosis of CD arise from the large differential, clinical heterogeneity and our limited understanding of pathology. In case of rare ascites, CD needs to be considered. BioMed Central 2021-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8680332/ /pubmed/34915856 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12876-021-02050-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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