Localized peripancreatic plasma cell Castleman disease

Charalabopoulos, Alexandre; Misiakos, Evangelos P.; Foukas, Perikles; Tsapralis, Dimitrios; Charalampopoulos, Anestis; Liakakos, Theodore; Macheras, Anastasios

doi:10.1016/j.amjsurg.2009.05.020

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Volume 199, Issue 5 , Pages e51-e53, May 2010

Localized peripancreatic plasma cell Castleman disease

Alexandre Charalabopoulos, M.D., M.R.C.S.
- 3rd Department of Surgery, University of Athens School of Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, Rumini 1 Street, Chaidari, Athens, Greece
Evangelos P. Misiakos, M.D.
- 3rd Department of Surgery, University of Athens School of Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, Rumini 1 Street, Chaidari, Athens, Greece
- Corresponding author. Tel.: +0030-210-532-6419; fax: +0030-210-532-6420
Perikles Foukas, M.D.
- 2nd Department of Pathology, University of Athens School of Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece
Dimitrios Tsapralis, M.D.
- 3rd Department of Surgery, University of Athens School of Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, Rumini 1 Street, Chaidari, Athens, Greece
Anestis Charalampopoulos, M.D.
- 3rd Department of Surgery, University of Athens School of Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, Rumini 1 Street, Chaidari, Athens, Greece
Theodore Liakakos, M.D.
- 3rd Department of Surgery, University of Athens School of Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, Rumini 1 Street, Chaidari, Athens, Greece
Anastasios Macheras, M.D.
- 3rd Department of Surgery, University of Athens School of Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, Rumini 1 Street, Chaidari, Athens, Greece

Received 13 April 2009; received in revised form 31 May 2009 published online 15 January 2010.

Abstract

Castleman disease (CD) is a rare, benign, and usually systemic lymphoproliferative disorder. Unicentric Castleman disease of the pancreas is extremely rare, with only less than 10 cases described in the literature. We describe a case of an isolated peripancreatic localization of a plasma cell–type Castleman disease, its clinical presentation, the diagnostic evaluation, and the cure of disease by surgical excision.

Keywords: Castleman disease, Peripancreatic tumors, Lymph node hyperplasia