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A Case of Advanced Unicentric Retroperitoneal Castleman's Disease, Associated With Psoriasis
Mohammad Ali Mohagheghi1, Ramesh Omranipur1, Fereshteh Ensani2
1Department of Surgical Oncology, Cancer Institute, Imam Khomeini Hospital Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract:
We present here a 32-year-old male with advanced lately diagnosed, right sided retroperitoneal mass, which had been already treated due to progressive muco-cutaneous lesions clinically consistent with psoriasis, during recent four years. The advanced retroperitoneal mass resected surgically and reported as hyaline-vascular castleman disease with a dense focus of coarse calcification, on histopathology. Association of psoriasis and castlman disease is discussed in this case report.
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