Unicentric Castleman's disease approached as a pancreatic neoplasm: case report and review of literature

نویسندگان

  • Adolfo Petrina
  • Emilio Eugeni
  • Marco Badolato
  • Carlo Boselli
  • Piero Covarelli
  • Fabio Rondelli
  • Giuseppe Noya
چکیده

Castleman's disease is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder. Most cases occur in the mediastinum and the pancreatic localization is uncommon; currently there are only nine reported cases in the literature about peripancreatic localization. We report a case of a 62 years old man with a Castleman's disease mimicking a pancreatic neoplasm.

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دوره 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009