Table 1. Literature review of surgical operation and radiotherapy for unicentric Castleman's disease.
Reference | No. of Patients | Histology | Treatment | Response (follow-up) |
Chronowski et al.[1] | 6 | 5 HV, 1 M | Complete resection | CR (4–74 months) |
2 | HV | Partial resection | Symptom-free (31–117 months) | |
4 | HV | Radiotherapy | Symptom-free* | |
Neuhof et al.[8] | 3 | 2 HV, 1 M | Radiotherapy | 1 CR, 2 NR |
Bowner et al.[9] | 10 | 8 HV, 2 M | Complete resection | CR (9–37 months) |
1 | HV | Partial resection | Symptom-free (12 months) | |
Bucher et al.[10] | 2 | HV | Complete resection | CR (5 years ) |
Veldhuis et al.[11] | 1 | PC | Radiotherapy | CR |
PC, plasma cell type; HV, hyaline vascular type; M, mixed type; CR, complete remission; PR, partial remission; NR, no response. *Two patients died of other diseases.