CASTLEMAN DISEASE IN THE CLINIC OF MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY

Abstract

The article describes a case of Castleman disease in the maxillofacial region in a woman aged 51 years. A tumor-like formation of the lateral surface of the right neck without significant anxiety grew over 18 years. A histological examination of a distant neoplasm after a surgical operation made it possible to diagnose a rare pathologyangiofollicular hyperplasia of the lymph node. Angiofollicular lymph node hyperplasia was first described by Benjamin Castleman in 1954, when solitary mediastinal lymph node hyperplasia was discovered in a patient [3].E.K. Egorova claims that Castleman disease must be divided into local and generalized (multicentric) [1]. With local Castleman disease, 3 morphological variants should be distinguished: hyaline-vascular, plazma-cellular and mixed-cellular. According to her, hyaline-vascular variant is found in 48,7% of patients, plazma-cellular - in 23,7% and mixed-cellular - in 27,6%.Manifestation of Castleman disease on the face or neck is a red flag for cancer alert.