Castleman Disease, Hyaline Vascular Type: Germinal Center Depletion & BCL2 Positivity in Follicular Cells May Be mistaken for Low grade Follicular Lymphoma in Limited biopsies

Siba El Hussein, MD
3 min readAug 1, 2021

Lessons From the Friday Unknowns

Histologic examination shows a markedly enlarged lymph node with variably-sized secondary follicles, some showing regressive changes with highly expanded mantle zones showing onion skinning.

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Siba El Hussein, MD

Hematopathology | Cytopathology | Molecular pathology | Digital pathology | Data science | Machine learning