Castleman’s disease along the left tracheobronchial tree with a diffi cult preoperative diagnosis
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Ryuta Fukai, MD, PhD · Yoshihito Irie, MD, PhD Kyu Rokkaku, MD, PhD · Masahito Saito, MD, PhD Takao Imazeki, MD, PhD Hideaki Miyamoto, MD, PhD Mik
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2011
Description
A 39-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of an asymptomatic middle mediastinal tumor. A preliminary histological diagnosis of the tumor by bronchoscopy was diffi cult to obtain because the tumor was located along the left tracheobronchial tree, which is diffi cult to approach. The tumor was resected through a right anteroaxillary thoracotomy without any major complications, and histopathological examination revealed that the lesion was Castleman’s disease, hyaline- vascular type. Radiological fi ndings of the lesion were typical; however, the rarity of the tumor made the imaging diagnosis diffi cult. If a lesion is located along the tracheobronchial tree, Castleman’s disease should be considered in the differential diagnosis.
Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2011) 59:436–439 DOI 10.1007/s11748-010-0680-1 Received: 24 April 2010 / Accepted: 13 July 2010
