# Benjamin Castleman

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{{short description|American pathologist}}
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| birth_date        = {{birth date|1906|05|17}}
| birth_place       = [Everett, Massachusetts](/source/Everett%2C_Massachusetts)
| death_date        = {{death date and age|1982|06|29|1906|05|17}}
| death_place       = [Boston, Massachusetts](/source/Boston%2C_Massachusetts)
| citizenship       = U.S.
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| fields            = [Medicine](/source/Medicine) & [Pathology](/source/Pathology)
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| alma_mater        = [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University) (B.A.) & [Yale University School of Medicine](/source/Yale_University_School_of_Medicine) (M.D.)
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| known_for         = Research in [Pathology](/source/Pathology)
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'''Benjamin Castleman''' (May 17, 1906, [Everett, Massachusetts](/source/Everett%2C_Massachusetts) – June 29, 1982, [Boston, Massachusetts](/source/Boston%2C_Massachusetts)) was an American [physician](/source/physician) and [pathologist](/source/pathologist)<ref>{{WhoNamedIt|synd|3017}}</ref> best known for describing [Castleman's disease](/source/Castleman's_disease) (angiofollicular lymphoid hyperplasia), which is [named after him](/source/eponymous_disease).<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](/source/pulmonary_alveolar_proteinosis) in a 1958 article in the ''[New England Journal of Medicine](/source/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](/source/Harvard_University) (B.A., 1927) and [Yale University](/source/Yale_University) (M.D., 1931).  He worked for many years at the [Massachusetts General Hospital](/source/Massachusetts_General_Hospital) in [Boston](/source/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](/source/Harvard_Medical_School). Castleman was an editor of the clinicopathological case presentation series in the ''[New England Journal of Medicine](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Pathology)
* [List of pathologists](/source/List_of_pathologists)

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Category:American pathologists
Category:1906 births
Category:1982 deaths
Category:People from Everett, Massachusetts
Category:Physicians of Massachusetts General Hospital
Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:Yale School of Medicine alumni
Category:Castleman disease
Category:20th-century American people

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