title: Mediastinal Castleman's disease mimicking thoracic paravertebral schwannoma.
abstract: A 51-year-old female underwent resection of a solid lesion in the posterior mediastinum, preoperatively interpreted at imaging as thoracic schwannoma, requiring double sequential surgical procedure to be resected. The histologic examination of the resected mass diagnosed a hyaline-vascular Castleman's disease.
authors.affiliation: Division of Thoracic Surgery, Azienda Ospedaliera Santa Maria Nuova, Viale Risorgimento 80, 42100 Reggio Emilia, Italy. paci.massimiliano@asmn.re.it
authors.forename: Massimiliano
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Paci
authors.forename: Riccardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Valli
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tenconi
authors.forename: Giorgio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sgarbi
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D005871:Castleman Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008477:Mediastinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D013899:Thoracic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed