Schwannoma of the vagus nerve, a rare middle mediastinal neurogenic tumor: case report

Schwannoma originating from the vagus nerve within the mediastinum is a rare, usually benign tumor. A 44-year old male was presented with chest pain. Chest radiography, CT scan and MRI showed a well circumscribed mass, 5 × 4 cm located in the aortopulmonary window. The mass was found at surgery to b...

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Autores principales: Rammos, Kyriakos St, Rammos, Stylianos K, Foroulis, Christophoros N, Zaramboukas, Thomas K
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2788545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19941638
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-4-68
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author Rammos, Kyriakos St
Rammos, Stylianos K
Foroulis, Christophoros N
Zaramboukas, Thomas K
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description Schwannoma originating from the vagus nerve within the mediastinum is a rare, usually benign tumor. A 44-year old male was presented with chest pain. Chest radiography, CT scan and MRI showed a well circumscribed mass, 5 × 4 cm located in the aortopulmonary window. The mass was found at surgery to be in close proximity with the aortic arch and the left pulmonary hilum, alongside the left vagus nerve. The encapsulated tumor was completely resected through a left thoracotomy incision and it was found to be a benign schwannoma in pathology. The patient is free of recurrence 6 years after surgery.
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spelling pubmed-27885452009-12-04 Schwannoma of the vagus nerve, a rare middle mediastinal neurogenic tumor: case report Rammos, Kyriakos St Rammos, Stylianos K Foroulis, Christophoros N Zaramboukas, Thomas K J Cardiothorac Surg Case report Schwannoma originating from the vagus nerve within the mediastinum is a rare, usually benign tumor. A 44-year old male was presented with chest pain. Chest radiography, CT scan and MRI showed a well circumscribed mass, 5 × 4 cm located in the aortopulmonary window. The mass was found at surgery to be in close proximity with the aortic arch and the left pulmonary hilum, alongside the left vagus nerve. The encapsulated tumor was completely resected through a left thoracotomy incision and it was found to be a benign schwannoma in pathology. The patient is free of recurrence 6 years after surgery. BioMed Central 2009-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC2788545/ /pubmed/19941638 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-4-68 Text en Copyright ©2009 K Rammos et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Schwannoma of the vagus nerve, a rare middle mediastinal neurogenic tumor: case report
title Schwannoma of the vagus nerve, a rare middle mediastinal neurogenic tumor: case report
title_full Schwannoma of the vagus nerve, a rare middle mediastinal neurogenic tumor: case report
title_fullStr Schwannoma of the vagus nerve, a rare middle mediastinal neurogenic tumor: case report
title_full_unstemmed Schwannoma of the vagus nerve, a rare middle mediastinal neurogenic tumor: case report
title_short Schwannoma of the vagus nerve, a rare middle mediastinal neurogenic tumor: case report
title_sort schwannoma of the vagus nerve, a rare middle mediastinal neurogenic tumor: case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2788545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19941638
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-4-68
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