Unicentric Castleman’s Disease Presenting As Back Pain

Castleman's disease is a rare disorder caused by a polyclonal proliferation of B lymphocytes and plasma cells. Half of all cases of multicentric Castleman's disease are associated with HIV or Kaposi's Sarcoma. Typically, unicentric Castleman's disease presents as an enlarged thor...

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Autores principales: Buntic, Nadezda, Brown, Taylor, Nisar, Ummah Salma, Yeary, Christopher
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
Materias:
General Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9812280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36620841
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32219
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author Buntic, Nadezda
Brown, Taylor
Nisar, Ummah Salma
Yeary, Christopher
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description Castleman's disease is a rare disorder caused by a polyclonal proliferation of B lymphocytes and plasma cells. Half of all cases of multicentric Castleman's disease are associated with HIV or Kaposi's Sarcoma. Typically, unicentric Castleman's disease presents as an enlarged thoracic lymph node but can present in multiple other body areas, such as the head and neck. This case report presents a rare large extrathoracic mass causing back pain in a 71-year-old man.
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spelling pubmed-98122802023-01-05 Unicentric Castleman’s Disease Presenting As Back Pain Buntic, Nadezda Brown, Taylor Nisar, Ummah Salma Yeary, Christopher Cureus General Surgery Castleman's disease is a rare disorder caused by a polyclonal proliferation of B lymphocytes and plasma cells. Half of all cases of multicentric Castleman's disease are associated with HIV or Kaposi's Sarcoma. Typically, unicentric Castleman's disease presents as an enlarged thoracic lymph node but can present in multiple other body areas, such as the head and neck. This case report presents a rare large extrathoracic mass causing back pain in a 71-year-old man. Cureus 2022-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9812280/ /pubmed/36620841 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32219 Text en Copyright © 2022, Buntic et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/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 author and source are credited.
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Buntic, Nadezda
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Unicentric Castleman’s Disease Presenting As Back Pain
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title_short Unicentric Castleman’s Disease Presenting As Back Pain
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