An Adolescent Case of Castleman Disease of the Plasma Cell Type Treated with Radiotherapy / 임상소아혈액종양
Clinical Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
; : 157-162, 2014.
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ABSTRACT
Castleman disease (CD) is a disorder with distinct lymphoid hyperplasia of unknown origin, and it is rare in children. There are two major forms of CD: unicentric (localized) and multicentric. Pathologically, it can be categorized into three subtypes: hyaline- vascular, plasma cell, and mixed types. We experienced a 15-year-old boy with histopathologically proven mediastinal CD of the plasma cell type. He was referred to our hospital because of mediastinal widening in a chest x-ray found by chance. Surgery was performed to resect two right paratracheal masses and subtotal excision was done. As complete surgical resection was not possible, the patient subsequently received three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (total 5,400 cGy in 27 fractions). The size of the mass decreased, and his clinical symptoms regressed without any side effects from radiotherapy. Here we report a case of unicentric plasma cell type CD, treated with radiotherapy due to incomplete surgical resection.
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Células Plasmáticas
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Radioterapia
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Tórax
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Enfermedad de Castleman
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Hiperplasia
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Trastornos Linfoproliferativos
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Adolescent
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Child
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Humans
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Male
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En
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Clinical Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Año:
2014
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