Castleman's disease in the head of the pancreas: report of a rare clinical entity and current perspective on diagnosis, treatment, and outcome

Table 1 Summary of patients with unicentric Castleman's disease involving the pancreas

Author	Site	Symptoms	Subtype	Treatment	Outcome
Goetze³	Tail of Pancreas	No	HV-CD	DP	NED (2 Yrs)
Erkan⁴	Peripancreatic	Abdominal pain*	PC-CD	Enucleation	NED (1 yr)
Baikovas⁵	Peripancreatic	No	HV-CD	Excision	NA
Lepke⁶	Body and Tail	No	HV-CD	STP	NA
Corbisier⁷	Peripancreatic	Abdominal pain	HV-CD	Excision	NA
LeVan⁸	Tail of Pancreas	Back pain	HV-CD	DP	NA
LeBorgne⁹	Uncinate Process	Systemic	PC-CD	PD	NED+ (11 mos)
Brossard¹⁰	Tail of Pancreas	Systemic	PC-CD	DP	+
Current Report	Head of Pancreas	No	HV-CD	PD	NED (1 yr)

HV-CD: hyaline vascular Castleman's disease; PC-CD: plasma cell Castleman's disease;
* Elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein, and hypergammaglobulinemia; DP: distal pancreatectomy; STP; subtotal pancreatectomy;
PD: pancreaticoduodenectomy; + resolution of systemic symptoms;
NED: No evidence of disease; NA: Not available

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