Primary pulmonary hypertension, Castleman's disease and human herpesvirus‐8
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Primary pulmonary hypertension, Castleman's disease and human herpesvirus-8.
Primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) and Castleman's disease (CD) are rare conditions infrequently encountered in clinical practice. In this paper, two patients diagnosed with both of these diseases are reported. The authors speculate that rather than being a chance occurrence, these conditions are linked by a common angio-proliferative mechanism. Therefore, an association between infection wit...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0903-1936,1399-3003
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.03.00006903