title: Cervical unicentric Castleman's disease in children.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Unicentric Castleman's disease (CD) is a rare benign lymphoproliferative disorder. A cervical location has rarely been reported in the pediatric literature.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 13-year-old boy presented with a mass in the right neck region of 3 months' evolution. Clinical examination revealed a smooth mobile 5 cm node deep in the sternocleidomastoid muscle. The diagnosis of hyaline vascular type CD was confirmed by complete surgical excision and histopathologic examination. Postoperative course was simple, without recurrence over 1 year's follow-up.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Cervically located CD often shows few symptoms, and is rarely suggested by a cervical mass found in children. Definitive diagnosis is histopathological. The hyaline vascular type of unicentric CD has a good prognosis after complete resection of the lesion.
authors.affiliation: Service de pédiatrie, CHU Farhat Hached, avenue Ibn El Jazzar, 4000 Sousse, Tunisia. Electronic address: jbouguila@yahoo.fr.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bouguila
authors.affiliation: Service de pédiatrie, CHU Farhat Hached, avenue Ibn El Jazzar, 4000 Sousse, Tunisia.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Lahmer
authors.affiliation: Service d'ORL, CHU Farhat Hached, avenue Ibn El Jazzar, 4000 Sousse, Tunisia.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Abdelkefi
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'anathomo-pathologie, CHU Farhat Hached, avenue Ibn El Jazzar, 4000 Sousse, Tunisia.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Affissath
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'anathomo-pathologie, CHU Farhat Hached, avenue Ibn El Jazzar, 4000 Sousse, Tunisia.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Trimeche
authors.affiliation: Service de pédiatrie, CHU Farhat Hached, avenue Ibn El Jazzar, 4000 Sousse, Tunisia.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Boughammoura
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005871:Castleman Disease / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009334:Neck Muscles / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*
keywords: Castleman's disease; Child; Lymph node; Neck