Open AccessTransitional type of Castleman's disease manifested as the POEMS syndrome
Author(s) -
Ilija Tomić,
Goran Plavec,
Olga Radić Tasić,
Aleksandar Ristanović,
Vlado Cvijanović
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
vojnosanitetski pregled
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 2406-0720
pISSN - 0042-8450
DOI - 10.2298/vsp0404439t
Subject(s) - medicine , poems syndrome , castleman disease , plasma cell , pathology , mediastinum , hyperplasia , disease , prednisone , gastroenterology , polyneuropathy , surgery , bone marrow
Castleman's disease is an atypical lymphoproliferative disorder characterized by angiofollicular hyperplasia of lymph nodes. Histologically, it can be classified into a hyaline-vascular type, plasma-cell type, and transitional (mixed-cell) type, while clinically localized type has been classified as unicentric, or generalized (multicentric) form of the disease.