Castleman's disease of the axilla mimicking metastasis.
Castleman's disease is an unusual inflammatory lymphoproliferative disorder of unknown cause. It most commonly occurs in the mediastinum but rarely in the axillary lymph nodes. We report a case of localized axillary Castleman's disease mimicking metastasis as the patient had a palpable malignant mass in the breast, described by ultrasonography, color Doppler ultrasonography, contrast-enhanced CT, and dynamic enhanced breast MR images.
Chang
Yun-Woo
YW
Department of Radiology, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Yongsan-ku, Seoul 140-743, Korea. ywchang@hosp.sch.ac.kr
Noh
Hyung Joon
HJ
Hong
Seong Sook
SS
Hwang
Jung Hwa
JH
Lee
Dong Wha
DW
Moon
Jeung Hee
JH
D001365:Axilla; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D005871:Castleman Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D003287:Contrast Media; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016217:Ultrasonography, Mammary
D003287:Contrast Media