Idiopathic Multicentric Castleman Disease Associated With Seronegative Erosive Chronic Polyarthritis: A Diagnostic Challenge
Birahim Lo, Baïdy Sy Kane, Fatine Benjelloun, Mouhamed Almakhy Niang, Ibra Kaïré, Charifah Siddiki, Avotra Razafimandimby, Hamidou Deme, Cherif Mouhamed Moustapha Dial, Abdoulaye Pouye · 2026
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Description
Birahim Lo and co-authors present a case from 2026 of a young woman with swollen lymph nodes and joint pain that wore down her joints. Castleman disease is a benign growth of lymph tissue with whole-body swelling signs. Its rare multi-node form with no known cause can look like self-attack or blood growth diseases.
The 23-year-old woman had sore joints in small and large joints, fever, and low blood counts. Nodes up to three cm wide sat in her neck, armpits, and groin. Her joint disease left test marks for the usual self-attack ills blank, yet it still ate at the joints. The team shows how tissue proof and marker tests were joined to pin the call. Such rare pairings, they say, need care from many fields at once.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Birahim Lo, Baïdy Sy Kane, Fatine Benjelloun, Mouhamed Almakhy Niang, Ibra Kaïré, Charifah Siddiki, Avotra Razafimandimby, Hamidou Deme, Cherif Mouhamed Moustapha Dial, Abdoulaye Pouye |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 16 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |