Turkish Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Dilek Çıngı Eker1, Ünal Güvenç2, Mehmet Halit Serdar Sander2, Aytuğ Genç3, Nagehan Özdemİr Barışık4

1İstanbul Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Kartal Dr. Lütfi Kırdar Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Çocuk Cerrahisi, İstanbul
2İstanbul Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Kanuni Sultan Süleyman Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Çocuk Cerrahisi Kliniği, İstanbul
3İstanbul Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Kartal Dr. Lütfi Kırdar Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Radyoloji Kliniği, İstanbul
4İstanbul Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Kartal Dr. Lütfi Kırdar Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Patoloji Kliniği, İstanbul

Keywords: Single-region Castleman’s Disease, childhood, treatment

Abstract

Castleman Disease (angiofollicular lymph node hyperplasia, giant lymph node hyperplasia) is a rarely seen condition with incompletely understood etiology. Predominantly clinical and histological findings determine the choice of treatment. In this case we present a 10-year old patient (single-region, hyaline vascular type Castleman Disease) with a tumour in the right axillary region which had an operation but the tumour has not been totally excised. In this paper the properties of the disease and treatment modalities have been discussed with review of the literature.