Calcified abdominal Castleman's disease: plain film and sonographic features.
Benign lymph node hyperplasia or Castleman's disease is an unusual entity, which rarely calcifies and is characteristically found near the hila of the lungs or in the mediastinum. In the case we have reported, a calcified mass in the left upper abdominal quadrant proved to be a rare case of abdominal Castleman's disease.
D000328:Adult; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006965:Hyperplasia; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D011859:Radiography; D012187:Retroperitoneal Space; D014463:Ultrasonography