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Comparative Lesions Analysis Through a Targeted Sequencing Approach
Published on: November 5, 2019
[Clinico-pathologic Analysis of 16 Cases of Castleman]
Ting-Kuan Zhao1, Li-Ming Zhang2, Yang Liang1
1Department of Pathology, Jingzhou Province Central Hospital, Jingzhou 434020, Hubei Province, China.
Objective:
To investigate the clinico-pathologic features, treatment and prognosis of Castleman disease.
Methods:
The clinico-pathologic data of 16 patients diagnosed as Castleman disease from January 2002 to December 2014 were analyzed retrospectively.
Results:
The median age was 28.5 (7-73)years old. There were 14 unicentric cases, 92.8% (13/14) of which was diagnosed as hyaline-vascular type. Two multicentric cases was diagnosed as plasmatcyic type. All the patients were treated by surgical resection and their median follow-up was 55.5 (2-150)months. As a result, 13 unicentric cases achieved sustained remission, 1 unicentric case with plasmatocytic type relapsed at 60th month after surgical resection.
Conclusion:
Clinical subtype and histopathogenic type are the dominating progonostic factors in Castleman patients. The clinical presentation of unicentric disease has been found to be benigns and the surgical resection can be used as first-line treatment method in clinic. The clinical presentation of multicentric disease may be stable or advanced, and the prognosis of advanced cases is poor as there are no effective treatments.
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