A child with cervical Castleman's disease mimicking nasofaringeal carcinoma: Case report; [Nazofarenks karsinomunu taklit eden servikal Castleman hastaliǧi tanili bir çocuk olgu]

Neşe N.; Özgüven A.A.; Onaǧ A.; Yücetürk A.V.

A child with cervical Castleman's disease mimicking nasofaringeal carcinoma: Case report; [Nazofarenks karsinomunu taklit eden servikal Castleman hastaliǧi tanili bir çocuk olgu]

Date

2010

Authors

Abstract

Castleman's disease (CD) is an uncommon benign disease that causes progressive lymph node enlargement. Most observations of CD have focused on adult patients and it rarely occurs in children. It usually arises as a solitary mass and is commonly found in the mediastinum and abdomen and less commonly in the head, neck and axilla.The diagnosis of CD is histopathological. We report a child of CD in the neck region who also had a mass at the nasopharenx mimicking nasofaringeal carcinoma and review the published child cases with CD that involved neck region. This report emphasizes that CD should be considered in the differential diagnosis of children presented with neck mass. Copyright © 2010 by Türkiye Klinikleri.