National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

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Preferred Name

Castleman Disease
Synonyms

Castleman's disease

Castleman Disease

Castleman's Disease

Angiofollicular Lymphoid Hyperplasia

Giant Lymph Node Hyperplasia

Castleman's Tumor

AFLH

GLNH

Definitions

A disorder characterized by lymphoid hyperplasia in the lymph nodes. There are two histologic variants recognized: the hyaline-vascular type and the plasma cell type. In the hyaline vascular type there are hyalinized vessels present in the lymphoid follicles. In the plasma cell type there is pronounced plasma cell proliferation. Clinically, the disease may be localized; manifested with localized lymphadenopathy, or multicentric; manifested with generalized lymphadenopathy, fever, organomegaly, and sometimes POEMS syndrome. In contrast to patients with localized disease who are usually cured following resection of the lesion, patients with the multicentric form of the disease may follow a progressive clinical course, complicated by infection, Kaposi sarcoma or lymphoma.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C3056

ALT_DEFINITION

A rare disorder in which growths that are benign (not cancer) develop in lymph node tissue.

code

C3056

DEFINITION

A disorder characterized by lymphoid hyperplasia in the lymph nodes. There are two histologic variants recognized: the hyaline-vascular type and the plasma cell type. In the hyaline vascular type there are hyalinized vessels present in the lymphoid follicles. In the plasma cell type there is pronounced plasma cell proliferation. Clinically, the disease may be localized; manifested with localized lymphadenopathy, or multicentric; manifested with generalized lymphadenopathy, fever, organomegaly, and sometimes POEMS syndrome. In contrast to patients with localized disease who are usually cured following resection of the lesion, patients with the multicentric form of the disease may follow a progressive clinical course, complicated by infection, Kaposi sarcoma or lymphoma.

FULL_SYN

Castleman's disease

Castleman Disease

Castleman's Disease

Angiofollicular Lymphoid Hyperplasia

Giant Lymph Node Hyperplasia

Castleman's Tumor

AFLH

GLNH

label

Castleman Disease

Legacy Concept Name

Angiofollicular_Lymphoid_Hyperplasia

Preferred_Name

Castleman Disease

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C3056

Semantic_Type

Disease or Syndrome

UMLS_CUI

C0017531

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C7764

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