Polyclonal hypergammaglobulinemia, infiltration of the salivary glands, lymphadenopathy, and kidney damage – Mikulicz’s disease, Sjögren’s syndrome, or Castleman’s disease? Case report and overview of differential diagnosis and treatment
Z. Adam, Zdeněk Fojtík, Zdeněk Řehák, Václav Kubeš et autres
BACKGROUND: Polyclonal hypergammaglobulinemia has a variety of causes, which we outline in the text. Regularly, very high concentrations of polyclonal immunoglobulins are observed in IgG4-related disease, Sjögren's syndrome, and in the idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease. OBSERVATION: We describe a patient who had …