Journal of Clinical Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
The Busan, Ulsan, Gyeoungnam Branch of Korean Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
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경부에서 발생한 갑상선 유두암이 Castleman씨 병 1례

조정일1, 정동학1, 김영모1, 송승봉1
Jung - Il Cho1, Dong Hak Jung1, Young - Mo Kim1, Seung Young Song1
1인하대학교 의과대학 이비인후과학교실
1Department of Otolaryngology,InHa university College of Medicine,Incheon,Korea

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Published Online: May 31, 2020

ABSTRACT

Castleman s disease is a giant lymph node hyperplasia, known to be a localized hyperplastic lymphoid process in the mediastinum. It is not commonly presented on neck. The étiologie mechanism of Castleman's disease is still unknown.

According to the histopathologic and clinical fingding, it devided to two distinct subtype, hyaline-vascular type and plasma cell type. Plasma cell type compromises only 9% of total cases and is likely to present with costitutional symptoms, such as anemia, fever, hypergammaglobulinemia. The hyaline-vascular type usually presents as an asymptomatic mass. Multicentric Castleman's disease may accompany malignancies, which include non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Kaposis's sarcoma, carcinoma.

We report one case of Castleman's disease on the neck which combined with thyroid cancer.

Keywords: Castleman’s disease; Thyroid cancer