Primary tracheal schwannoma a review of a rare entity: current understanding of management and followup

BACKGROUND: Neurogenic tumors of the tracheobronchial tree are extremely rare and include neurofibroma and schwannoma. We report a case of primary recurrent tracheal schwannoma causing obstructive airway symptoms. CASE PRESENTATION: A 60-year-old man presented with obstructive airway symptoms due to...

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Autores principales: Hamouri, Shadi, Novotny, Nathan M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5706167/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29183345
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-017-0677-2
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description BACKGROUND: Neurogenic tumors of the tracheobronchial tree are extremely rare and include neurofibroma and schwannoma. We report a case of primary recurrent tracheal schwannoma causing obstructive airway symptoms. CASE PRESENTATION: A 60-year-old man presented with obstructive airway symptoms due to recurrent tracheal schwannoma. Due the recurrence, size of the tumor and low surgical risk, the patient was treated with tracheal resection. CONCLUSION: Primary endotracheal neurogenic tumors are extremely rare, but one should consider them in the differential diagnosis of persistent upper airway symptoms. While endoscopic therapies recur nearly a quarter of the time, surgical resections do not have any recorded recurrences.
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spelling pubmed-57061672017-12-05 Primary tracheal schwannoma a review of a rare entity: current understanding of management and followup Hamouri, Shadi Novotny, Nathan M. J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report BACKGROUND: Neurogenic tumors of the tracheobronchial tree are extremely rare and include neurofibroma and schwannoma. We report a case of primary recurrent tracheal schwannoma causing obstructive airway symptoms. CASE PRESENTATION: A 60-year-old man presented with obstructive airway symptoms due to recurrent tracheal schwannoma. Due the recurrence, size of the tumor and low surgical risk, the patient was treated with tracheal resection. CONCLUSION: Primary endotracheal neurogenic tumors are extremely rare, but one should consider them in the differential diagnosis of persistent upper airway symptoms. While endoscopic therapies recur nearly a quarter of the time, surgical resections do not have any recorded recurrences. BioMed Central 2017-11-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5706167/ /pubmed/29183345 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-017-0677-2 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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