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Anales de Medicina Interna
versão impressa ISSN 0212-7199
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RODRIGUEZ SILVA, H. et al. Castleman's disease: Review of five cases. An. Med. Interna (Madrid) [online]. 2005, vol.22, n.1, pp.24-27. ISSN 0212-7199.
It has been reported five cases of Castleman's disease. They were admited at "Hermanos Ameijeiras" Surgical-Clinic Hospital. In four out of the five cases belonged to hyaline-vascular histological variety and one case to plamocelular variety. All the cases which belonged hyaline-vascular variety were located and one of them was complicated with sarcoma of dendritic follicular cells. The plasmacelular variety was of the multicentric type. Of the four located cases two of them were retroperitoneals and they received surgical treatment only; the case of cervical location was treated with radiotherapy and steroids and the forth one of axillary location was treated with surgical removal followed of radiotherapy. The last one case, of plasma-cell and multicentric type, was only treated with prednisone. All the patients are still alive and only the one with plasmacelular variety has symptoms yet.
Palavras-chave : Castleman's disease; Hyaline-vascular; Plasma-cell; Unicentric; Multicentric; Sarcoma of dendritic cells.