Preoperative embolization as an adjunct to the operative management of mediastinal Castleman disease.
Castleman disease usually presents in children as a localized mass with prominent feeding vessels. The mainstay of treatment of Castleman disease is surgical resection; historically, resection is associated with excessive blood loss. These tumors are well known to have large feeding vessels and, thus, are amenable to preoperative arteriography with embolization. The authors present a case of Castleman disease treated with preoperative embolization as an adjunct to operative management.
Safford
Shawn D
SD
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
Lagoo
Anand S
AS
Mahaffey
Samuel A
SA
D005871:Castleman Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008477:Mediastinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy