Ramadan, A., Seif, S., Eladl, A., Shaband, N., Abdalla, A. (2022). Castleman disease as an unusual cause of ascites : Case report. Medical Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 6.2(2), 1-3. doi: 10.21608/mjvh.2022.234475
Ahmed Ramadan; Seham Seif; Ahmed Eladl; Nora Shaband; Abdelfattah Abdalla. "Castleman disease as an unusual cause of ascites : Case report". Medical Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 6.2, 2, 2022, 1-3. doi: 10.21608/mjvh.2022.234475
Ramadan, A., Seif, S., Eladl, A., Shaband, N., Abdalla, A. (2022). 'Castleman disease as an unusual cause of ascites : Case report', Medical Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 6.2(2), pp. 1-3. doi: 10.21608/mjvh.2022.234475
Ramadan, A., Seif, S., Eladl, A., Shaband, N., Abdalla, A. Castleman disease as an unusual cause of ascites : Case report. Medical Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 2022; 6.2(2): 1-3. doi: 10.21608/mjvh.2022.234475
Castleman disease as an unusual cause of ascites : Case report
3Nuclear medicine and oncology department, mansura university, Mansoura, Egypt.
4General 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.