Unicentric Castleman Disease Mimicking an Autoinflammatory Disorder: A Diagnostic Challenge in a Pediatric Patient With Recurrent Fever


KIŞLA EKİNCİ R. M., Balci S., ERGİN M., KÜPELİ S., BAYRAM İ., YILMAZ M., ...Daha Fazla

JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGY ONCOLOGY, cilt.42, sa.3, ss.204-207, 2020 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 42 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2020
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1097/mph.0000000000001557
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGY ONCOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, CAB Abstracts, EMBASE, MEDLINE
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.204-207
  • Çukurova Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Unicentric Castleman disease (CD) is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder that is characterized by the enlargement of lymph nodes on the neck, mediastinum, and retroperitoneum. Herein, we present a 6-year-old female patient, referred to our medical center because of recurrent fever accompanied by cervical lymphadenopathy and elevated inflammatory markers since 3 years of age. Fever episodes lasting 1 day continued irregularly without any accompanying symptom. MEditerranean FeVer (MEFV) gene analysis showed no mutations; however, as inflammatory markers including serum amyloid A remained markedly high during attack-free periods, colchicines was initiated. The patient did not respond to maximally tolerated doses of colchicine; therefore, we added canakinumab and systemic methylprednisolone, subsequently. Unresponsiveness to 3 doses of bimonthly canakinumab and new-onset hepatosplenomegaly led us to investigate large-vessel vasculitis and malignancy; therefore, we performed Position emission tomography, which further revealed a hypermetabolic retroperitoneal solid mass. After performing the excisional biopsy, the patient has been diagnosed as suffering from hyaline vascular variant CD, confirmed by histopathology. In conclusion, we report a pediatric unicentric CD, which resembled autoinflammatory diseases and responded well to surgical resection, with the normalization of inflammatory markers 1 month after the procedure. CD, even the unicentric and hyaline vascular variant, should be considered in the differential diagnosis of the patients with an autoinflammatory phenotype.