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V Guillén Camargo

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[Localized Castleman's disease associated with high-grade lymphoma].

Castleman's disease is a rare entity which is characterized by its histologic features: hyperplasia of lymph nodes and capillary proliferation. Two distinct histological patterns has been described: hyaline vascular type and plasma-cell type. Two different clinical course has been identified. While localized type is usually a benign disease in which surgical resection is curative, multicentric type has a poor prognosis regarded to the appearance of severe infection or neoplasm (Kaposi's sarcoma or malignant lymphoma. We present a rare association of localized Castleman's disease that presents synchronously with a diffuse large-cell lymphoma.

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