Castleman's disease in childhood: report of three cases and review of the literature
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Castleman's disease (CD) is a rare, localized or generalized, lymphoproliferative disorder with a frequent mediastinal location, but possible in any lymph node or extra nodal site. It usually appears in young adults whilst it rarely occurs in childhood. Ther...
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doaj-40493f36073f4ac7b632460b63fa82022020-11-25T00:29:42ZengBMCItalian Journal of Pediatrics1720-84241824-72882011-10-013715010.1186/1824-7288-37-50Castleman's disease in childhood: report of three cases and review of the literatureGuerrieri PatriziaCecchetto GiovanniScibetta NunziaTrizzino AntoninoFarruggia PieroD'Amore Emanuele SGD'Angelo Paolo<p>Abstract</p> <p>Castleman's disease (CD) is a rare, localized or generalized, lymphoproliferative disorder with a frequent mediastinal location, but possible in any lymph node or extra nodal site. It usually appears in young adults whilst it rarely occurs in childhood. There are only about 100 pediatric cases published, five of them in Italy. We report 3 cases of localized Castleman's disease, investigated in our Department in a 3 years period and reviewed the literature.</p> http://www.ijponline.net/content/37/1/50Castleman's diseasechildhooddifferential diagnosishistological subgroupsoutcome |
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Castleman's disease in childhood: report of three cases and review of the literature |
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Castleman's disease in childhood: report of three cases and review of the literature |
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Castleman's disease in childhood: report of three cases and review of the literature |
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Castleman's disease in childhood: report of three cases and review of the literature |
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Castleman's disease in childhood: report of three cases and review of the literature |
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castleman's disease in childhood: report of three cases and review of the literature |
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Italian Journal of Pediatrics |
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1720-8424 1824-7288 |
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2011-10-01 |
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Castleman's disease (CD) is a rare, localized or generalized, lymphoproliferative disorder with a frequent mediastinal location, but possible in any lymph node or extra nodal site. It usually appears in young adults whilst it rarely occurs in childhood. There are only about 100 pediatric cases published, five of them in Italy. We report 3 cases of localized Castleman's disease, investigated in our Department in a 3 years period and reviewed the literature.</p> |
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Castleman's disease childhood differential diagnosis histological subgroups outcome |
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