title: Symptomatic mesentery Castleman disease mimicking a pancreatic tumor.
abstract: Castleman disease (CD) is an uncommon lymphoproliferative disorder of unknown etiology. It can be localized or multicentric. There are two major histological variants. The hyaline-vascular type predominates in the thorax and the mesenteric disease is usually of the plasma cell type. Hyaline-vascular CD of the mesentery is very rare. We report such a neoplasm of mesenteric root in a 38-year-old woman who presented with abdominal discomfort. Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of CD has rarely been reported previously. The imaging findings of CD on computed tomograms, MR images and angiograms were described.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, College of Medicine and School of Medical Technology, Chang-Gung University, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan.
authors.forename: I-Hao
authors.initials: IH
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Yung-Liang
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Wan
authors.forename: Kuang-Tse
authors.initials: KT
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: Chein-Fu
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Hung
authors.forename: Jeng-Hwei
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Tseng
authors.forename: Chi-Hsun
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Hsieh
authors.forename: Nai-Jen
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005871:Castleman Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed