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To review the historical understanding, pathogenesis, clinical features, and evolving management approaches for multicentric Castleman's disease over a 50-year period.

December 1, 2004Acta OncologicaOpen Access

Fifty years of multicentric Castleman's disease

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AWAshita WaterstonBeatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre MBMark BowerChelsea and Westminster Hospital

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Clinical review reveals evolving viral associations and therapeutic strategies in multicentric Castleman's disease, highlighting the lack of standardized randomized treatment trials.

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To review the historical understanding, pathogenesis, clinical features, and evolving management approaches for multicentric Castleman's disease over a 50-year period.
Review of published case series, clinical literature, and pathological classifications since Castleman's original 1954 description.
Evaluation of diagnostic biopsy findings, histological variants, and viral pathobiology related to human immunodeficiency virus and Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus.
Multicentric Castleman's disease typically presents with generalized polylymphadenopathy and multiorgan dysfunction, predominantly manifesting as the plasma cell histologic variant driven by viral interleukin-6.
Evidence-based therapeutic consensus remains unavailable due to an absence of randomized trials, leaving clinical management dependent on case reports detailing surgery, chemotherapy, antivirals, antiretrovirals, and anti-IL-6 or anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies.

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Waterston et al. (2004) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aaa0ea081b585e3dc1c0105 https://doi.org/10.1080/02841860410002752

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Clinical review reveals evolving viral associations and therapeutic strategies in multicentric Castleman's disease, highlighting the lack of standardized randomized treatment trials.

Fifty years of multicentric Castleman's disease

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Fifty years of multicentric Castleman's disease

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