Benjamin Castleman was an American pathologist best known for the eponymous disease which is named after him, Castleman's disease

Castleman's disease

Castleman's disease is an uncommon lymphoproliferative disorder that can involve single lymph node stations or...

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He was also one of the investigators of the first case series of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis

Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis

Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis is a rare lung disease in which abnormal accumulation of surfactant occurs within the alveoli, interfering with gas exchange. PAP can occur in a primary form or secondarily in the settings of malignancy , pulmonary infection, or environmental exposure to dusts or...

 in a 1958 article in the New England Journal of Medicine

New England Journal of Medicine

The New England Journal of Medicine is an English-language peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It describes itself as the oldest continuously published medical journal in the world.-History:...

 (Rosen-Castleman-Liebow syndrome is a rarely used term for this condition).

Castleman worked for many years at the Massachusetts General Hospital

Massachusetts General Hospital

Massachusetts General Hospital is a teaching hospital and biomedical research facility in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts...

 in Boston

Boston

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. He was an editor of the clinicopathological case presentation series in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The Benjamin Castleman Award is awarded annually since 1981 to an English research article in the field of human pathology by the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology.

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