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Chinthareddy R, Prithiviraj H, Zaidi S, Srikrishna S, Lingaraju VC. Castleman Disease: A Rare and Intriguing Malady: A Case Series. Indian J Chest Dis Allied Sci 2022; 64 (3):220-223.
Castleman disease (CD), first described by Benjamin Castleman as angiofollicular mediastinal lymph–node hyperplasia, is a rare benign lymphoproliferative disorder with varied modes of presentation. Its common presentation within the mediastinum misleads the clinician and merits special attention since it is essentially a diagnosis of exclusion. We are sharing our experience with three patients, within a relatively short period of 2 years. All three presented with a mediastinal mass, however, each of them came with an entirely different clinical scenario and diagnosis. All three were successfully operated and Castleman disease [hyaline–vascular (HV) type] was diagnosed only after the final histopathology.
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