title: Giant mass due to Castleman's disease causing superior vena cava syndrome.
abstract: Castleman's disease is an uncommon disorder occurring mostly in patients presenting with localized mediastinal lymphadenopathy.It is usually asymptomatic. With localized disease, surgical excision is curative. Castleman's disease can very rarely present as superior vena cava syndrome. We describe a case of mediastinal Castleman's disease which presented as vena cava superior syndrome; it is the largest mediastinal mass from Castleman's disease reported in the literature.
authors.affiliation: Thoracic Surgery, Karadeniz Technical University Faculty of Medicine, Trabzon, Turkey. celaltekinbas3@hotmail.com
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tekinbas
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Erol
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ozsu
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Cobanoglu
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kosucu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005871:Castleman Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D019299:Decompression, Surgical; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013249:Sternum / Q000601:surgery; D013479:Superior Vena Cava Syndrome / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D013952:Thymus Hyperplasia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome