title: Castleman's disease arising from the chest wall.
abstract: An 18-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of an abnormality on chest radiography. Computed tomography showed a sharply defined, 5 x 2 x 3 cm, densely enhanced mass in the left side of the chest wall. We performed tumor resection under video-assisted thoracoscopy, with minimal bleeding. Histologically, the tumor was shown to be Castleman's disease. This is the eleventh case of Castleman's disease arising from the chest wall reported over the last 20 years.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan. kurai08@hsp.md.shinshu-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kurai
authors.forename: Ryoichi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kondo
authors.forename: Nobutaka
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hyogotani
authors.forename: Kazuo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yoshida
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Amano
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005871:Castleman Disease / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013896:Thoracic Diseases / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted; D035441:Thoracic Wall