The spectrum of Castleman's disease: mimics, radiologic pathologic correlation and role of imaging in patient management.
Castleman's disease (CD) is a rare benign lymphoid disorder with variable clinical course. The two principal histologic subtypes of CD are hyaline-vascular and plasma cell variants and the major clinicoradiological entities are unicentric and multicentric CD. Management of CD is tailored to clinicoradiologic subtype. In this review, we describe the CT, MR and PET/CT findings in Castleman's disease which can help suggest a diagnosis of CD as well as emphasize role of imaging in management of patients with CD.
Madan
Rachna
R
Thoracic Imaging, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA. rmadan@partners.org
Chen
Jey-Hsin
JH
Trotman-Dickenson
Beatrice
B
Jacobson
Francine
F
Hunsaker
Andetta
A
D005871:Castleman Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography / Q000379:methods*; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*