The clinicopathological comparison among nodal cases of idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease with and without TAFRO syndrome

Multicentric Castleman disease (MCD) is a systemic inflammatory disease potentially caused by an increase in the serum interleukin-6 (IL-6) level. Idiopathic MCD (iMCD) is histopathologically classified into three types: plasmacytic (PC), mixed, and hypervascular (hyperV) types. Recently, a unique clinical phenotype with a poor prognosis overlap with iMCD, thrombocytopenia, anasarca, fever, renal failure or reticulin fibrosis, and organomegaly (TAFRO syndrome), has been reported from Japan, but its detailed clinicopathological features remain unclear.

Source: Human Pathology - April 20, 2018 Category: Pathology Authors: Nozomu Kurose, Chizuru Futatsuya, Ken-ichi Mizutani, Motona Kumagai, Akihiro Shioya, Xin Guo, Akane Aikawa, Satoko Nakada, Shino Fujimoto, Hiroshi Kawabata, Yasufumi Masaki, Kazue Takai, Sadao Aoki, Masaru Kojima, Shigeo Nakamura, Sohsuke Yamada Tags: Original Contribution Source Type: research