{{short description|American pathologist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Benjamin Castleman | image = Benjamin_Castleman.jpg | image_size = 150 px | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1906|05|17}} | birth_place = Everett, Massachusetts | death_date = {{death date and age|1982|06|29|1906|05|17}} | death_place = Boston, Massachusetts | citizenship = U.S. | nationality = | fields = Medicine & Pathology | workplaces = | alma_mater = Harvard University (B.A.) & Yale University School of Medicine (M.D.) | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = Research in Pathology | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | awards = | religion = | signature = | footnotes = }}
'''Benjamin Castleman''' (May 17, 1906, Everett, Massachusetts – June 29, 1982, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American physician and pathologist<ref>{{WhoNamedIt|synd|3017}}</ref> best known for describing Castleman's disease (angiofollicular lymphoid hyperplasia), which is named after him.<ref name="pmid13165944">{{cite journal |vauthors=Castleman B, Towne VW |title=Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital: Case No. 40231 |journal=N. Engl. J. Med. |volume=250 |issue=23 |pages=1001–5 |date=June 1954 |pmid=13165944 |doi= 10.1056/NEJM195406102502308}}</ref><ref name="pmid13356266">{{cite journal |vauthors=Castleman B, Iverson L, Menendez VP |title=Localized mediastinal lymphnode hyperplasia resembling thymoma |journal=Cancer |volume=9 |issue=4 |pages=822–30 |year=1956 |pmid=13356266 |doi= 10.1002/1097-0142(195607/08)9:4<822::AID-CNCR2820090430>3.0.CO;2-4|doi-access=free }}</ref> 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.)<ref name="pmid13552931">{{cite journal |vauthors=Rosen SH, Castleman B, Liebow AA |title=Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis |journal=N. Engl. J. Med. |volume=258 |issue=23 |pages=1123–42 |date=June 1958 |pmid=13552931 |doi= 10.1056/NEJM195806052582301}}</ref> 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.
Castleman grew up in a Jewish religious household and was educated at Harvard University (B.A., 1927) and Yale University (M.D., 1931). He worked for many years at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, serving as chief of the division of anatomic pathology there, and he held the rank of Professor of Pathology in the Harvard Medical School. Castleman was an editor of the clinicopathological case presentation series in the ''New England Journal of Medicine''.<ref name="pmid13194083">{{cite journal |vauthors=Castleman B, Towne VW |title=Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital; weekly clinicopathological exercises; founded by Richard C. Cabot |journal=N. Engl. J. Med. |volume=251 |issue=10 |pages=396–400 |date=September 1954 |pmid=13194083 |doi= 10.1056/NEJM195409022511008}}</ref>
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.<ref>[http://www.uscap.org/newindex.htm?awards.htm Awards] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716080136/http://www.uscap.org/newindex.htm?awards.htm |date=July 16, 2011 }} of the USCAP.</ref>
Castleman died of lymphoma in June 1982<ref>http://person.ancestry.com/tree/27506048/person/26081655578/story {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}}</ref> and is buried in Boston, MA.<ref>{{cite news|title=Obituaries: Dr. Benjamin Castleman, was Chief of Pathology 24 years at MGH; 76|work=The Boston Globe|date= July 1, 1982|page= 36|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-obituaries-dr-benjami/191179194/}}</ref>
==See also== * Pathology * List of pathologists
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