title: Mesenteric Castleman's disease.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Guro Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, 80 Guro-dong, Guro-gu, Seoul 152-703, Korea.
authors.forename: Sung-Hoon
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Byung-Wook
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Min
authors.forename: Wan-Bae
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sung-Soo
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Jun-Won
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Um
authors.forename: Jae-Bok
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Young-Jae
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Mok
authors.forename: Sang-Yong
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Hong-Young
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Moon
authors.forename: Bum-Hwan
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Koo
authors.forename: Ju-Han
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: In-Sun
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: 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