Castleman disease as an unusual cause of ascites : Case report

Castleman disease (CD) is a collection of rare lymphoproliferative illnesses with similar lymph node histological findings. Castleman disease most commonly manifests with a hyperenhancing lymph nodal mass and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of lymphoma, metastatic adenopathy, infections or autoimmune diseases result in adenopathy. This disease includes a range of pathologic variants, including the Unicentric hyaline vascul type, plasma cell type and multicentric type and Castleman disease linked with human herpesvirus 8.