Cervical Castleman disease: CT study with angiographic correlation

Radiology. 1986 Jul;160(1):213-4. doi: 10.1148/radiology.160.1.3715035.

Abstract

The computed tomographic (CT) appearance, angiographic appearance, and clinical features of a patient with cervical Castleman disease, an uncommon disease of benign lymph node hyperplasia, are reported. CT scans showed a densely enhancing cervical mass. On external carotid angiography, the mass was seen as hypervascular with a capillary blush. Differential diagnosis included carotid body chemodectoma, vagal neuroma, tumor of the salivary gland, tuberculous adenitis and other granulomatous diseases, inflammatory lymph nodes, metastatic disease, and lymphoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Angiography
  • Carotid Arteries / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Hyperplasia / diagnostic imaging
  • Lymph Nodes / diagnostic imaging
  • Lymph Nodes / pathology*
  • Male
  • Neck
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed