Vagus nerve schwannoma in the right upper mediastinum

A 35‐year‐old woman was admitted to our hospital with an abnormal shadow on her chest roentgenogram. Computed tomography showed that a tumor was located in the right upper mediastinum. Resection of the tumor by video‐assisted thoracoscopic surgery was performed. Operative findings determined that th...

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Autores principales: Zhu, WeiPeng, Chen, DongHong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5668479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28805352
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1759-7714.12485
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description A 35‐year‐old woman was admitted to our hospital with an abnormal shadow on her chest roentgenogram. Computed tomography showed that a tumor was located in the right upper mediastinum. Resection of the tumor by video‐assisted thoracoscopic surgery was performed. Operative findings determined that the tumor originated from the right vagus nerve and was diagnosed as schwannoma by pathological examination.
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spelling pubmed-56684792017-11-09 Vagus nerve schwannoma in the right upper mediastinum Zhu, WeiPeng Chen, DongHong Thorac Cancer Case Reports A 35‐year‐old woman was admitted to our hospital with an abnormal shadow on her chest roentgenogram. Computed tomography showed that a tumor was located in the right upper mediastinum. Resection of the tumor by video‐assisted thoracoscopic surgery was performed. Operative findings determined that the tumor originated from the right vagus nerve and was diagnosed as schwannoma by pathological examination. John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd 2017-08-14 2017-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5668479/ /pubmed/28805352 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1759-7714.12485 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Thoracic Cancer published by China Lung Oncology Group and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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title_full Vagus nerve schwannoma in the right upper mediastinum
title_fullStr Vagus nerve schwannoma in the right upper mediastinum
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title_short Vagus nerve schwannoma in the right upper mediastinum
title_sort vagus nerve schwannoma in the right upper mediastinum
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5668479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28805352
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1759-7714.12485
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