Education
Harvard University; Yale University.
Harvard University; Yale University.
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). Castleman undertook clinicopathologic investigations of parathyroid disease and wrote several important papers on diseases of the thymus and mediastinum. He authored or co-authored over 100 scholarly papers on a variety of disorders.
Castleman was educated at Harvard University (Bachelor, 1927) and Yale University (Doctor of Medicine, 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. Doctor Castleman was an editor of the clinicopathological case presentation series in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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. lieutenant is administered by the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology.
Doctor Castleman died of lymphoma in June 1982 and he is buried in Boston.