Mediastinal Castleman's disease mimicking thoracic paravertebral schwannoma.

Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Azienda Ospedaliera Santa Maria Nuova, Viale Risorgimento 80, 42100 Reggio Emilia, Italy.

Published: September 2011

A 51-year-old female underwent resection of a solid lesion in the posterior mediastinum, preoperatively interpreted at imaging as thoracic schwannoma, requiring double sequential surgical procedure to be resected. The histologic examination of the resected mass diagnosed a hyaline-vascular Castleman's disease.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1510/icvts.2011.272229DOI Listing

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