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Xia Wang, ShanHui Ye, ChunPing Xiong, JianQuan Gao, ChuYing Xiao, XiangBin Xing, Successful Treatment with Bortezomib and Thalidomide for POEMS Syndrome Associated with Multicentric Mixed-type Castleman's Disease, Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology, Volume 41, Issue 10, October 2011, Pages 1221–1224, https://doi.org/10.1093/jjco/hyr120
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Abstract
Polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, M-protein and skin changes syndrome is a rare multi-systematic disorder of uncertain etiology, if associated with multicentric Castleman's disease, it can lead to a more serious condition. We here presented a case of polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, M-protein and skin changes syndrome in a 37-year-old male patient who initially presented with progressive lower limb weakness accompanied by pain, low skin temperature, and hyperpigmentation. He was admitted with increasingly serious dyspnea and lower leg edema. Fluid of serous cavities in the patient were also indicated in ultrasonic inspection and X-ray. Furthermore, biopsy of a left axillary lymph node showed mixed hyaline-vascular and plasma cell type of multicentric Castleman's disease. Administration of bortezomib (Velcade) (1.3 mg/m2 on days 1, 4, 8 and 11 of a 21-day cycle) combined with thalidomide (100 mg/day and 21-day cycle) dramatically improved the condition of this disease. Of note, in our study, combination therapy of bortezomib and thalidomide successfully improved the condition of the patient with polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, M-protein and skin changes syndrome associated with multicentric Castleman's disease, suggesting that the combination therapy may be an effective therapeutic strategy for the intractable polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, M-protein and skin changes syndrome associated with multicentric Castleman's disease.
- edema
- diagnostic radiologic examination
- roentgen rays
- endocrine system diseases
- dyspnea
- biopsy
- hyaline
- hyperpigmentation
- axilla
- combined modality therapy
- angiolymphoid hyperplasia
- pain
- plasma cells
- poems syndrome
- polyneuropathies
- skin temperature
- thalidomide
- ultrasonics
- lower leg
- lymph nodes
- bortezomib
- skin changes
- inspection
- lower extremity paresis
- causality
- multi-centric castleman's disease