Benjamin Castleman (May 17, 1906, Everett, Massachusetts – June 29, 1982, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American physician and pathologist[1] best known for describing Castleman's disease (angiofollicular lymphoid hyperplasia), which is named after him.[2][3] He was also one of the authors of the first case series on pulmonary alveolar proteinosis in a 1958 article in the New England Journal of Medicine. ("Rosen–Castleman–Liebow syndrome" is a rarely used term for that condition.)[4] Castleman undertook clinicopathologic investigations of parathyroid disease and wrote several important papers on diseases of the thymus and mediastinum. He wrote, or collaborated in writing, over 100 scholarly papers on a variety of disorders.
The Benjamin Castleman Award has been given annually since 1982 to the first author of an English-language research article that is considered the most worthy in the field of human pathology. It is administered by the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology.[6]
Castleman died of lymphoma in June 1982[7] and is buried in Boston, MA.[8]
↑Castleman B, Towne VW (June 1954). "Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital: Case No. 40231". N. Engl. J. Med. 250 (23): 1001–5. doi:10.1056/NEJM195406102502308. PMID13165944.
↑Castleman B, Towne VW (September 1954). "Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital; weekly clinicopathological exercises; founded by Richard C. Cabot". N. Engl. J. Med. 251 (10): 396–400. doi:10.1056/NEJM195409022511008. PMID13194083.
