title: Castleman's disease presenting as a midline neck mass.
abstract: We report the case of a 13-year-old girl who presented with a painless midline submental mass. Excision biopsy confirmed Castleman's disease of the hyaline-vascular type. This unusual condition needs to be considered in the differential diagnosis of masses arising in the neck.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Bond
authors.forename: N R
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Saeed
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Palka
authors.forename: F P
authors.initials: FP
authors.lastname: Carls
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005871:Castleman Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods