Castleman's disease. A case of angiofollicular lymphoid hyperplasia followed from diagnosis (1985) until 1995

A case report is presented of a patient, (R.C.), who suffered from Castleman's syndrome or angiofollicular lymphoid hyperplasia. The first signs of the disease occurred in 1985 in the form of a left axillary adenopathy. The diagnosis was made after a surgical exeresis of the affected lymph nodes through an histologic test which revealed that it was a case of the plasmocyte version of Castleman syndrome. The histochemical tests showed the monoclonal nature (lambda chains) of the plasmocyte population. Since then the patient, who has been followed every six months with blood chemistries and instrumental check-ups, has not suffered any further relapses.