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Complete remission in a pancytopenic HIV negative, HHV-8 positive patient with multicentric Castleman's disease

J M Cervera Grau1, G Galiana Esquerdo, C Llorca Ferrándiz

  • 1Oncology Department, Hospital General de Elda, Alicante, Spain. cerveragrau@yahoo.es

Clinical & Translational Oncology : Official Publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico
|July 28, 2006
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A 75-year-old woman was diagnosed of MCD plasma cell (PC) variant with B symptoms. Diffuse lymph-node enlargement, splenomegaly and pancytopenia were detected. Induction with Rituximab was made because pancytopenia was present. Actually patient is free of disease. This is the first complete response of MCD published, VIH negative, induced with anti CD20.

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