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Preoperative embolization in mediastinal Castleman's disease

B Aydemir1, T Okay, O Imamoglu

  • 1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Siyami Ersek Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Center, Istanbul, Turkey. aydemirb@hotmail.com

The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon
|November 27, 2010
PubMed

Castleman's disease is a rare lymphoproliferative disease and its etiology is still unknown. It may occur at every site where lymph tissue is present. A definitive treatment is possible with complete resection. The most important problem is bleeding which may occur during surgery due to the high vascularization. In this study, we present the surgical treatment of a case with mediastinal Castleman's disease, treated preoperatively with embolization because of hypervascularization detected on thoracic CT.

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