title: Laparoscopy-assisted resection for Mesenteric Castleman's disease: Report of a case.
abstract: A 65-year-old female patient was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995. An abdominal mass was detected by computed tomography and the patient was preoperatively diagnosed with a gastrointestinal stromal tumor. Laparoscopy-assisted surgical resection revealed a mesenteric Castleman's tumor of the hyaline vascular type. Mesenteric Castleman's disease is rare, and there have been only 42 cases reported in the English literature. We herein discuss the clinical findings of these cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital and Atomic Bomb Survivors Hospital, 1-9-6 Senda-Machi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima, 730-8619, Japan.
authors.forename: Mitsuhiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ohta
authors.forename: Manabu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: Tetsuzo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tagawa
authors.forename: Eiji
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tsujita
authors.forename: Ayumi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Matsuyama
authors.forename: Jin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Okazaki
authors.forename: Tohru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Utsunomiya
authors.forename: Shinichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tsutsui
authors.forename: Megumu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fujihara
authors.forename: Teruyoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ishida
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005871:Castleman Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008643:Mesentery