Castleman disease in the parapharyngeal space:a case report
Castlemans disease is a group of heterogeneous lymphoproliferative disorders with unclear etiology and pathogenesis.This article reports a case of Castleman's disease of the parapharyngeal space,with a comprehen-sive literature review of the clinical feature and typing,pathologic diagnosis,treatment,and prognosis of the dis-ease.This case is a unicentric type,which is clinically characterized by significant enlargement of lymph nodes without systemic symptoms.The pathology was hyaline vascular type,and the treatment of unicentric type was mostly based on surgery with a better prognosis.