[A case of Castleman lymphoma in the right pulmonary hilum and mediastinum].
A 36-year-old man who complained of low grade fever and cough was detected an abnormal shadow in the right pulmonary hilum and mediastinum on a chest X-ray film. On admission, laboratory data showed high CRP and hyper gamma globlinemia. In thoracotomy, original tumor and mediastinal lymph node were resected. Histopathologically, main tumor and two of all the resected lymph node were diagnosed as Castleman lymphoma (plasma cell type). We consider that not only the main tumor and also the peripheral lymph node should be resected in this disease, because the lesions were often showed multicentric if this tumor were plasma cell type.
Department of Chest Surgery, Obihiro National Hospital, Obihiro, Japan.
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Kitada
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Sakurada
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Suzuki
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Hirano
D000328:Adult; D005871:Castleman Disease / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008477:Mediastinal Diseases / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*