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"Follicular variant" of hyaline-vascular type of Castleman's disease: histopathological and immunohistochemical study of 11 cases.
Journal of clinical and experimental hematopathology : JCEH - 1 Nov 2008
Kojima Masaru, Shimizu Kazuhiko, Ikota Hayato, Ohno Yoshihiro, Motoori Tadashi, Itoh Hideaki, Masawa Nobuhide, Nakamura Shigeo
Abstract excerpt
Occasionally, the hyaline-vascular type of Castleman's disease (HVCD) contains numerous lymphoid follicles which usually occupy more than 50% of the lesion. Such lesions are called the follicular variant (FV) of HVCD. To clarify the histological and immunohistochemical findings of lymphoid follicles in the FV of HVCD, we examined 11 such cases. Histologically, five types of lymphoid follicles were delineated....
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