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Castleman's disease epidemiology and demographics

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Raviteja Guddeti, M.B.B.S. [2]

Overview

Prevalence

  • Estimated prevalence per 100,000 is 1 case.

Age

  • Average age of the patients with unicentric disease is 30 – 40 yrs
  • For multicentric disease it is 50 – 60 yrs

Gender

  • No gender differentiation is seen in the occurrence of the disease.

References

de:Morbus Castleman

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