Archiv für chirurgische Onkologie

Multicentric Castleman's Disease with Mycobacterium cosmeticum Infection

Abstract

Anand AS, Kuriakose VG, Govindan K, Nachimuthu K, John RM and Meloot SS

Multicentric Castleman's Disease (MCD) is a rare and poorly understood disorder that straddles the intersections of hematology, oncology, rheumatology, and virology and can be fatal if improperly treated. The etiology of HHV8 negative disease is unknown and only isolated cases of associations with infectious agents have been reported in literature. However the co-occurrence of Mycobacterium cosmeticum with Castleman’s disease has never been previously reported in literature. Hence we would like to report a case of Multicentric Castleman’s disease with a coexisting M. cosmeticum infection.