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Castleman Disease and Renal Amyloidosis

I. Kazes; G. Deray; C. Jacobs

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  • Hopital Pitie-Salpetriere, Paris, France.
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Giant lymph node hyperplasia was initially described by Castleman and colleagues [1] in 1956 as a solitary mediastinal lesion. Since then, isolated cases of this rare disease have been reported in other sites [2] and have been described under two clinicopathologic variants: the hyaline vascular type and the plasma cell type. Systemic manifestations such as fever, anemia, increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and hypergammaglobulinemia frequently accompany the plasma cell variant and subside after the lesion is removed [3]. We describe a patient successfully treated with surgery alone for Castleman disease associated with renal amyloidosis.
A 48-year-old woman...
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Kazes I, Deray G, Jacobs C. Castleman Disease and Renal Amyloidosis. Ann Intern Med. 1995;122:395–396. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-122-5-199503010-00024

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 1995;122(5):395-396.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-122-5-199503010-00024

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