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Volume 199, Issue 5, Pages e51-e53 (May 2010)


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Localized peripancreatic plasma cell Castleman disease

Alexandre Charalabopoulos, M.D., M.R.C.S.a, Evangelos P. Misiakos, M.D.aCorresponding Author Informationemail address, Perikles Foukas, M.D.b, Dimitrios Tsapralis, M.D.a, Anestis Charalampopoulos, M.D.a, Theodore Liakakos, M.D.a, Anastasios Macheras, M.D.a

Received 13 April 2009; received in revised form 31 May 2009 published online 15 January 2010.

Abstract 

Castleman disease (CD) is a rare, benign, and usually systemic lymphoproliferative disorder. Unicentric Castleman disease of the pancreas is extremely rare, with only less than 10 cases described in the literature. We describe a case of an isolated peripancreatic localization of a plasma cell–type Castleman disease, its clinical presentation, the diagnostic evaluation, and the cure of disease by surgical excision.

a 3rd Department of Surgery, University of Athens School of Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, Rumini 1 Street, Chaidari, Athens, Greece

b 2nd Department of Pathology, University of Athens School of Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece

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PII: S0002-9610(09)00532-7

doi:10.1016/j.amjsurg.2009.05.020


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