Castleman disease. Unusual retroperitoneal location indistinguishable from malignant tumor in preoperative angiographic appearance.
Castleman disease (angiofollicular lymph node hyperplasia) has been reported rarely as a solitary retroperitoneal mass radiographically indistinguishable from retroperitoneal malignancies. We report a case of a hyaline-vascular variant of Castleman disease presenting as a pararenal mass. The computerized tomographic and angiographic appearances of this lesion are presented, and the clinical importance of the differential diagnosis of retroperitoneal tumors is discussed.
Takihara
H
H
Department of Urology, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Ube, Japan.
Yamakawa
G
G
Baba
Y
Y
Takahashi
M
M
Ishihara
T
T
D000328:Adult; D000792:Angiography; D005871:Castleman Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011300:Preoperative Care; D012186:Retroperitoneal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D012187:Retroperitoneal Space