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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography in the staging and evaluation of treatment response in a patient with Castleman's disease: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Case report Fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography computed tomography in the staging and evaluation of treatment response in a patient with Castleman s disease a case report Ettore Pelosi 1 Andrea Skanjeti12 Angelina Cistaro11 and Vincenzo Arena11 Address 1IRMET PET Center Via Onorato Vigliani 10138 Turin Italy and 2Nuclear Medicine Unit University of Turin Corso Bramante 10126 Turin Italy Email Ettore Pelosi - Andrea Skanjeti - askanjeti@ Angelina Cistaro - Vincenzo Arena - Corresponding author fEqual contributors Published 3 April 2008 Received 11 July 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2 99 doi 1752-1947-2-99 Accepted 3 April 2008 This article is available from http content 2 1 99 2008 Pelosi et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Castleman s disease is a rare lymphatic polyclonal disorder that is characterised by unicentric or multicentric lymph node hyperplasia and non-specific symptoms and signs including fever asthenia weight loss enlarged liver and abnormally high blood levels of antibodies. Case presentation We present the case of a 74-year-old man with Castleman s disease. The disease was detected with a contrast-enhanced computed tomography CT scan and a fluorodeoxyglucose FDG -positron emission tomography PET CT study diagnosis was made with histopathology. After treatment with surgical excision followed by chemotherapy the disease response was evaluated using both diagnostic techniques. However only the PET study was able to identify the spread of the disease to the abdominal lymph nodes which were .