(1) Department of Thoracic Surgery, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan;(2) Department of General Surgery, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan;(3) Mackay Medicine, Nursing and Management College, Taipei County, Taiwan
Abstract:
Background
Complete resection seemed to be curative in patients with Castleman disease of any location but the disease is likely to be reactive in its pathogenesis. The relation between Epstein-Barr virus and Castleman disease has not been elucidated. We tried to define the role of Epstein-Barr virus in the pathogenesis of Castleman disease.