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SUBMITTER: Katsumata Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6038330 | biostudies-other | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Katsumata Yusuke Y Ikari Jun J Tanaka Nozomi N Abe Mitsuhiro M Tsushima Kenji K Yonemori Yoko Y Tatsumi Koichiro K
Respiratory medicine case reports 20180607
A 67-year-old woman with fever and cough was diagnosed with eosinophilic pneumonia because of eosinophilia and increased eosinophil levels in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and transbronchial biopsy lung specimens. However, prednisolone therapy at a previous hospital was ineffective. Histological findings from thoracoscopic lung and lymph node biopsies were consistent with multicentric Castleman's disease (MCD). Since specimens also showed prominent eosinophil and IgG<sub>4</sub>-positive plas ...[more]