CASTLEMANS-DISEASE A CASE OF ANGIOFOLLICULAR LYMPHOID HYPERPLASIA FOLLOWED FROM DIAGNOSIS (1985) UNTIL 1995

A case report is presented of a patient, (R.C.), who sufferred from Ca stleman's syndrome or angiofollicular lymphoid hyperplasia. The first signs of the disease occured in 1985 in the form of a left axillary ad enopathy. The diagnosis was made after a surgical exeresis of the affe cted lymph nodes through an histologic test which revealed that it was a case of the plasmocyte version of Castleman' syndrome. The histoche mical tests showed the monoclonal nature (lambda chains) of the plasmo cyte popoulation. Since then the patient, who has been followed every six months with blood chemistries and instrumental check-ups, has not suffered any further relapses.