Abstract
Castleman’s disease was first reported by Castleman et al. in 1954 as localized large benign hyperplastic mediastinal lymph nodes histologically characterized by hyperplasia of the lymphoid follicles and capillary proliferation with endothelial hyperplasia. We report herein on a rare case of Castleman’s Disease arising in a left parotid gland. A 11-year-old male patient complained of swelling of the left parotid lesion. Preoperative CT scan, MRI and echo findings suggested that the tumor was very hypervascular. As this lesion was clinically suspected to be a benign tumor of the parotid gland, superficial layer segmental resection of parotid gland was performed. After surgery, the tumor was diagnosed as hyaline-vascular type of Castleman’s disease. There is no evidence of recurrence in the patient 40 months after the operation.
