[Castleman's disease. Review of five cases]

It has been reported five cases of Castleman s disease. They were admitted at Hermanos Ameijeiras Surgical-Clinic Hospital. In four out of the five cases belonged to hyaline-vascular histological variety and one case to plasmacellular variety. All the cases which belonged hyaline-vascular variety were located and one of them was complicated with sarcoma of dendritic follicular cells. The plasmacellular variety was of the multicentric type. Of the four located cases two of them were retroperitoneals and they received surgical treatment only; the case of cervical location was treated with radiotherapy and steroids and the forth one of axillary location was treated with surgical removal followed of radiotherapy. The last one case, of plasma-cell and multicentric type, was only treated with prednisone. All the patients are still alive and only the one with plasmacellular variety has symptoms yet.