Preoperative embolization of hypervascular Castleman's disease of the mediastinum

John Henri Robert1, Georgios Sgourdos, Neoklis Kritikos

  • 1Department of Surgery, Geneva University Hospital, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland.

We report the case of a 31-year-old woman with mediastinal Castleman's disease of the hyaline vascular type. This large tumor was safely resected after arterial embolization. We describe the steps of this interventional procedure and discuss related necessary precautions.