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Intrathoracic Castleman disease.
AIM To analyze patients with Castleman disease who were diagnosed by surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively investigated the postoperative pathological records of operations performed between January 1992 and December 2012 in our hospital. Files of 19 patients with the diagnosis of Castleman disease were analyzed. RESULTS There were 13 male and 6 female patients with a mean age o...
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To the Editor In their article, Hsi et al 1 described the broad spectrum of histopathologic features of Castleman disease (CD). We would like to report one additional peculiar case, rich in human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8)–infected plasmablasts (PBs), which we recently observed in our institution. The normal PB is a short-lived, very mobile B cell that can secrete antibodies but retains characterist...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: TURKISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1300-0144,1303-6165
DOI: 10.3906/sag-1304-38