Open AccessCastleman′s disease - hyaline vascular type - clinical, cytological and histological features with review of literature
Author(s) -
Arnab Ghosh,
Seema V Pradhan,
OP Talwar
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
indian journal of pathology and microbiology/indian journal of pathology and microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0974-5130
pISSN - 0377-4929
DOI - 10.4103/0377-4929.64335
Subject(s) - medicine , asymptomatic , histopathology , differential diagnosis , hyaline , pathology , cervical lymphadenopathy , biopsy , cytology , lymph node , plasma cell , disease , radiology , bone marrow
Castleman's disease (CD) is a rare disease of lymph node with two identified forms - the hyaline vascular (HV) type or angiofollicular type and plasma cell (PC) type. It usually presents as localized or systemic lymphadenopathy or even as extra nodal mass and may give rise to several differential diagnoses. Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC), as the initial investigation, may be misleading. Excision biopsy usually gives the diagnosis. This study analyzes the clinical, cytological and histological features of CD of HV type.