Benign intramural schwannoma of the esophagus – case report

Schwannomas of the esophagus are rare peripheral nerve tumors. A 37-year-old woman with dysphagia was found to have an intramural tumor of the upper esophagus. The lesion was revealed on computed tomography. Endoscopic ultrasound biopsy was nondiagnostic. Through right thoracotomy, the mass was enuc...

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Autores principales: Kozak, Katarzyna, Kowalczyk, Mateusz, Jesionek-Kupnicka, Dorota, Kozak, Józef
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Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2015
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4520512/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26336484
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2015.50574
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author Kozak, Katarzyna
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description Schwannomas of the esophagus are rare peripheral nerve tumors. A 37-year-old woman with dysphagia was found to have an intramural tumor of the upper esophagus. The lesion was revealed on computed tomography. Endoscopic ultrasound biopsy was nondiagnostic. Through right thoracotomy, the mass was enucleated from the wall of the esophagus. Benign schwannoma was diagnosed only after immunological staining examination.
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spelling pubmed-45205122015-09-02 Benign intramural schwannoma of the esophagus – case report Kozak, Katarzyna Kowalczyk, Mateusz Jesionek-Kupnicka, Dorota Kozak, Józef Kardiochir Torakochirurgia Pol Case Reports Schwannomas of the esophagus are rare peripheral nerve tumors. A 37-year-old woman with dysphagia was found to have an intramural tumor of the upper esophagus. The lesion was revealed on computed tomography. Endoscopic ultrasound biopsy was nondiagnostic. Through right thoracotomy, the mass was enucleated from the wall of the esophagus. Benign schwannoma was diagnosed only after immunological staining examination. Termedia Publishing House 2015-03-31 2015-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4520512/ /pubmed/26336484 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2015.50574 Text en Copyright © 2015 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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