Giant Lymph Node Hyperplasia (Castleman's disease) is a rare benign lesion. It
develops mostly in the mediastinum, but also in the neck areas, intra-abdominally,
retroperitoneally, in the muscle, lung parenchyme, or multicentrically in the multi-lymph
nodes and spleen, or elsewhere.
There are two types of histology; the hyaline vascular type and the plasma cell type.
Complete surgical excision is the treatment of choice.
Recently, the authors experienced a case of giant lymph node hyperplaisa(Castleman's
disease), hyaline-vascular type, located in the right hilar area. Now we report this case
with reviews of previously reported literature.
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