Zhou, Qianyun Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhou, Guangping Zhu, Jihong
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BMC Nephrology
BackgroundTAFRO syndrome is a clinical subtype of idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD) that is characterized by thrombocytopenia, anasarca, fever, reticulin myelofibrosis (or renal dysfunction), and organomegaly. TAFRO syndrome has only recently been described, and many clinicians are unaware of this disease, leading to delays in diagno...
Alhoulaiby, Sami Okar, Lina Samaan, Haya Qalaani, Hisham
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Autoimmunity Highlights
IntroductionMarfan syndrome, G6PD deficiency, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and Castleman disease are four distinctive, thoroughly investigated entities whose coincidence was never reported. However, occurrence in pairs was sporadically mentioned in literature.Case presentationWe report a 15-year-old Caucasian G6PD deficient Marfan male patie...
Hodl, Isabel Bosch, Philipp Dreo, Barbara Stradner, Martin H.
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Frontiers in Immunology
Schnitzler syndrome (SchS) is a rare autoinflammatory disease, characterized by urticarial rash, recurrent fever, osteo-articular pain/arthritis with bone condensation, and monoclonal gammopathy. Diagnosis may be difficult due to overlapping signs with other diseases. Here, we describe the case of a 62-year-old man with SchS, who was initially misd...
Lyapichev, Kirill A You, M James Vega, Francisco Solis, Luisa M Medeiros, L Jeffrey
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Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology
Hodgkin lymphoma is a B cell neoplasm characterized by Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg (HRS) cells in an inflammatory background. Classic Hodgkin lymphoma (CHL) accounts for approximately 90% of all cases of HL and four types are recognized in the World Health Organization (WHO) classification: lymphocyte-rich, nodular sclerosis, mixed cellularity, and ...
Mantilla, Barbara Nugent, Kenneth Solis, Ximena Paz, Pablo Mallah, Haneen Makram, John Labib, Safaa Yepes-Hurtado, Andres
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Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center)
Castleman disease (CD) is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder with variable presentation and prognosis. Most CD cases are unicentric and correspond to the hyaline-vascular variant, a histopathological classification associated with better outcomes, which commonly presents as an enhancing hypervascular mediastinal mass. CD is often asymptomatic and ...
Modolin, M.L.A. Camargo, C.P. Milcheski, D.A. Cintra, W. Jr. Rocha, R.I. Clivatti, G.M. Nascimento, B. Gemperli, R.
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International Journal of Surgery Case Reports
Introduction Castleman disease (CD) is a lymphoproliferative disorder with lymph node hypertrophy. In the unicentric form (UCD), it affects one lymph node or chain of lymph nodes. In the multicentric form (DCM), there is hypertrophy of several lymph node chains with the formation of tumor masses, causing compressive symptoms. This case report showe...
Ashjaei, Bahar Ghamari Khameneh, Afshar Darban Hosseini Amirkhiz, Gisoo
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Case Reports in Oncology
Castleman disease is a rare cause of retroperitoneal mass in children. Clinical presentation and laboratory findings are usually nonspecific. Imaging shows features of a hypervascular or soft tissue mass. We present a 12-year-old boy who complained of frequent colds, fatigue, and failure to gain weight for the past 4 years who was referred to our h...
Fonseca, Margarida R. Teles, Miguel Oliva Barradas, Ana Rita Domingos, João Pãosinho, Ana Madruga, Isabel
Lau, Yue Hui Mohd Unit, Hazfadzila Lee, Lay Peng Loh, Weng Khean Hiew, Fu Liong
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Clinical Neurophysiology Practice
Objective We detailed the electrophysiological patterns of peripheral nerve temporal dispersion across spectrum of POEMS syndrome and Castleman disease (CD). Methods Compound muscle action potentials (CMAP) duration of 3 patients with POEMS syndrome and 2 with hyaline vascular type CD without clonal plasma cell dyscrasia were retrospectively analys...
Kobayashi, Soya Inui, Ayano Tsunoda, Tomoyuki Umetsu, Syuichiro Sogo, Tsuyoshi Mori, Masaaki Shinkai, Masato Fujisawa, Tomoo
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World journal of clinical cases
Castleman's disease (CD) is a lymphoproliferative disorder. TAFRO syndrome is classified as a variant of CD based on its key clinical manifestations of thrombocytopenia, anasarca (generalized edema and pleural effusion), fever (pyrexia), reticulin fibrosis in the bone marrow and the proliferation of megakaryocytes, and organomegaly (such as hepatos...