1. Unicentric Castleman Disease: Illustration of Its Morphologic Spectrum and Review of the Differential Diagnosis
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Hussein, Siba El, Evans, Andrew G., Fang, Hong, Wang, Wei, and Medeiros, L. Jeffrey
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Sarcoma -- Development and progression -- Diagnosis ,Non-Hodgkin's lymphomas -- Diagnosis -- Development and progression ,B cells ,Dendritic cells ,Health - Abstract
* Context.--Unicentric Castleman disease (UCD) is a dynamic entity with a wide spectrum of morphologic findings. UCD can be further subdivided into hyaline-vascular and mixed/plasmacytic variants. Hyaline-vascular UCD has both follicular and interfollicular (stromal) changes, and occasionally these lesions show a skewed representation of either the follicular or stromal compartments. Plasmacytosis is usually minimal in the hyaline-vascular variant. The mixed/plasmacytic variant of UCD is composed of sheets of plasma cells often associated with a variable number of follicles with regressive changes. Objective.--To illustrate the differential diagnosis of UCD, as it is quite broad and includes lymphomas, plasma cell neoplasms, stromal neoplasms such as follicular dendritic cell sarcoma and vascular neoplasms, immunoglobulin G4-related disease, infections, and other rare lesions. An additional objective is to enhance awareness of the morphologic features of UCD in excisional and in small core-needle biopsy specimens, the latter of which may inadvertently target follicle- or stroma-rich areas, causing diagnostic challenges. Data Sources.--In this review, we provide readers a concise illustration of the morphologic spectrum of UCD that we have encountered in our practice and a brief discussion of entities in the differential diagnosis. Conclusions.--UCD exhibits a broad spectrum of morphologic changes, and awareness of these morphologic variations is key to avoid misdiagnosis. doi: 10.5858/arpa.2022-0404-RA, Castleman disease (CD) is a designation used for a heterogeneous group of diseases that involve lymph nodes. CD may be unicentric (UCD) or multicentric (MCD), based on the number of [...]
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- 2024
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