An unusual cause of ascites: Castleman disease

BMC Gastroenterology

Fang Fang¹  KaiGuang Zhang¹  Si Chen¹  Yong Jia¹  XiuLi Zhu¹ 

[1] Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, 230001, Hefei, Anhui, People’s Republic of China;

关键词: Castleman disease;    Ascites;    Lymph nodes;    Polyserositis;    Case report;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12876-021-02050-7

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundCastleman disease (CD) is a group of rare lymphoproliferative diseases with common lymph node histological features that can easily be misdiagnosed as infections, multiple autoimmune diseases, and malignant tumors.Case presentationHere we report a rare case of a Chinese male with refractory ascites for two years and was eventually diagnosed as CD.ConclusionsThe challenges in diagnosis of CD arise from the large differential, clinical heterogeneity and our limited understanding of pathology. In case of rare ascites, CD needs to be considered.

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