Castleman disease as an unusual cause of ascites : Case report

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1 Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt

2 Pathology department, Mansoura university, Mansoura, Egypt.

3 Nuclear medicine and oncology department, mansura university, Mansoura, Egypt.

4 General surgery department, alazhar university, Egypt.

Abstract

Castleman disease (CD) is a collection of rare lymphoproliferative illnesses with similar lymph node histological findings. Castleman disease most commonly manifests with a hyperenhancing lymph nodal mass and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of lymphoma, metastatic adenopathy, infections or autoimmune diseases result in adenopathy. This disease includes a range of pathologic variants, including the Unicentric hyaline vascul type, plasma cell type and multicentric type and Castleman disease linked with human herpesvirus 8.

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