[Castleman's disease of the abdomen].
Plasmocytic variants of Castleman's disease are uncommon. We report a new case of abdominal location with a rapidly fatal outcome. Another particularity of that case was the negativity of Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpesvirus, a virus recently implicated in human immunodeficiency virus associated Castleman's disease.
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Département d'Hépatogastroentérologie, CHU, avenue Côte-de-Nacre, Caen.
Salaün
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Bouin
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Piquet
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Auriault
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Dao
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Verwaerde
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Troussard
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D000368:Aged; D005871:Castleman Disease / Q000473:pathology* / Q000821:virology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006566:Herpesviridae Infections / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology; D019288:Herpesvirus 8, Human / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male