%0 Journal Article %T Castleman's Disease in a 35 Year-Old Woman with a Giant Mediastinal Mass %J TANAFFOS (Respiration) %I National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran %Z 1735-0344 %A Aghajanzadeh, Manouchehr %A Safarpoor, Feizollah %A Hemati, Hossein %A Alavi, Ali %A Aghajanzadeh, Gilda %D 2009 %\ 12/01/2009 %V 8 %N 4(autumn) %P 51-54 %! Castleman's Disease in a 35 Year-Old Woman with a Giant Mediastinal Mass %K Castleman's Disease %K Mediastinum %K Mediastinal mass %R %X The patient was a 35 year-old woman with a 10-month history of breathing difficulty, cough and chest pain. An anteriorposterior chest radiograph revealed opacification of the right hemithorax with reduced right lung volumes. As part of diagnostic evaluation, a computed tomography (CT) scan was performed which showed a huge mass in the right anterior mediastinum with extension to the right side of the pleural space. It was resected through postero-lateral thoracotomy .The patient was discharged in a good condition. The pathology report showed hyaline vascular variant of Castleman,s disease. (Tanaffos 2009; 8(4): 51-54) %U https://www.tanaffosjournal.ir/article_241203_8fc78c19ee93eaf52cc3ae17099f6e3c.pdf