Castleman's disease presenting as a midline neck mass

We report the case of a 13-year-old girl who presented with a painless midline submental mass. Excision biopsy confirmed Castleman's disease of the hyaline-vascular type. This unusual condition needs to be considered in the differential diagnosis of masses arising in the neck.

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Published inBritish journal of plastic surgery Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 62 - 64
Main Authors Bond, S.E., Saeed, N.R., Palka, I., Carls, F.P.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Elsevier Ltd 2003
Elsevier
Subjects
Adolescent
Biological and medical sciences
Castleman Disease - diagnosis
castleman's disease
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Head and Neck Neoplasms - diagnosis
Hematologic and hematopoietic diseases
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods
Medical sciences
midline neck mass
Other diseases. Hematologic involvement in other diseases
midline neck mass
castleman's disease
Human
Case study
Benign lymphadenopathy
Lymphoproliferative syndrome
Castleman disease
Surgery
Tumor
Hemopathy
Neck
Child
Inaugural sign
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Summary:We report the case of a 13-year-old girl who presented with a painless midline submental mass. Excision biopsy confirmed Castleman's disease of the hyaline-vascular type. This unusual condition needs to be considered in the differential diagnosis of masses arising in the neck.
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ISSN:0007-1226
1465-3087
DOI:10.1016/S0007-1226(02)00478-2