Key result
Preoperative awareness of retroperitoneal Castleman's disease helps prevent unnecessarily extensive surgeries like concurrent nephrectomy.
Why the study?
Knowledge of Castleman's disease in the retroperitoneal area is important to avoid unnecessarily extensive operations.
Knowledge of Castleman's disease in the retroperitoneal area may help avoid unnecessarily extensive operations such as nephrectomy.
Hypothesis-generating for preoperative diagnosis in retroperitoneal masses; leaves open whether awareness reduces surgical extent beyond this case.
We report a case of retroperitoneal Castleman's disease of the hyaline vascular type. The tumor was excised with the left kidney because of tenacious adhesion to the renal pedicle. We suggest that knowledge of Castleman's disease in the retroperitoneal area would help to avoid an unnecessarily extensive operation.
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Ebisuno et al. (2010) studied this question. Preoperative awareness of retroperitoneal Castleman's disease can help avoid unnecessarily extensive operations, such as the concurrent nephrectomy required in this case due to tumor adhesion.
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