Clinical features and outcomes in patients with human immunodeficiency virus-negative, Castleman’s disease: a single medical center study in Tunisia

Abstract

Castleman’s disease (CD), known as angiofollicular lymph node hyperplasia, is an uncommon condition. The two most common histological subtypes are hyaline vascular and plasma cell. We performed a retrospective analysis to define the clinic-pathological features and survival of CD, which is quite rare focusing on the particularities of our series with a review of the recent literature.

Keywords

• castleman’s disease
• lymphoproliferation
• adenopathy
• hyalino-vascular form
• plasma cell form