Laparoscopy-assisted resection for Mesenteric Castleman's disease: Report of a case
Mitsuhiko Ohta1, Manabu Yamamoto, Tetsuzo Tagawa
1Department of Surgery, Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital and Atomic Bomb Survivors Hospital, 1-9-6 Senda-Machi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima, 730-8619, Japan.
Surgery Today
|September 17, 2011
Abstract:
A 65-year-old female patient was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995. An abdominal mass was detected by computed tomography and the patient was preoperatively diagnosed with a gastrointestinal stromal tumor. Laparoscopy-assisted surgical resection revealed a mesenteric Castleman's tumor of the hyaline vascular type. Mesenteric Castleman's disease is rare, and there have been only 42 cases reported in the English literature. We herein discuss the clinical findings of these cases.