Mesenteric Castleman's disease.
We report here a rare case of mesenteric Castleman's disease presenting as a mesenteric mass. A 13-year-old female child was admitted to our hospital complaining of intermittent vague abdominal pain. She had hypochromic anemia, thrombocytosis and an elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR). Ultrasonography and computed tomography indicated an intra- abdominal mass might represent a lymphoma or gastrointestinal stromal tumor or leiomyoma, but the definitive preoperative diagnosis couldn't be confirmed. The surgical resection of the mass revealed the mesenteric hyaline vascular-type Castleman's disease.
Kim
Sung-Hoon
SH
Department of Surgery, Guro Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, 80 Guro-dong, Guro-gu, Seoul 152-703, Korea.
Min
Byung-Wook
BW
Kim
Wan-Bae
WB
Park
Sung-Soo
SS
Um
Jun-Won
JW
Lee
Jae-Bok
JB
Mok
Young-Jae
YJ
Choi
Sang-Yong
SY
Moon
Hong-Young
HY
Koo
Bum-Hwan
BH
Lee
Ju-Han
JH
Kim
In-Sun
IS
D000293:Adolescent; D005871:Castleman Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008643:Mesentery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography