INCIDENTAL FINDING OF CASTLEMAN'S DISEASE IN AN INGUINAL HERNIAL SAC LYMPH NODE - A CASE STUDY
Dr. K. R. Mukilarasi M.D., Dr. Mary Lilly
ABSTRACT
Castleman’s disease (CD) is characterized clinically by lymph node hypertrophy, and histologically by angiofollicular lymphnode hyperplasia. Castleman et al first described it in 1956 in a group of patients with localized benign lymphadenopathy. This disease has two clinical types: Unicentric CD or localized and multicentric CD or systemic. It also has three histological types: hyaline-vascular variant, plasma-type variant, and mixed type. Castleman’s disease in an inguinal lymph node is quite a rare location which is discussed in this case report.
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