Radiology Lexicon

Last uploaded: November 20, 2020
Preferred Name

Castleman disease
Synonyms

giant lymph node hyperplasia

angiofollicular hyperplasia

Definitions

Large benign, hyperplastic lymph nodes. The more common hyaline vascular subtype is characterized by small hyaline vascular follicles and interfollicular capillary proliferations. Plasma cells are often present and represent another subtype with the plasma cells containing IgM and immunoglobulin a. [MeSH]

ID

http://radlex.org/RID/RID3781

Definition

Large benign, hyperplastic lymph nodes. The more common hyaline vascular subtype is characterized by small hyaline vascular follicles and interfollicular capillary proliferations. Plasma cells are often present and represent another subtype with the plasma cells containing IgM and immunoglobulin a. [MeSH]

label

RID3781

Preferred_name

Castleman disease

prefixIRI

RID3781

prefLabel

Castleman disease

Synonym

giant lymph node hyperplasia

angiofollicular hyperplasia

UMLS_ID

C0017531

subClassOf

http://radlex.org/RID/RID3780

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