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Benign Pericardial Schwannoma: Case Report and Summary of Previously Reported Cases
Patient: Male, 30 Final Diagnosis: Benign pericardial schwannoma Symptoms: Chest pain Medication: — Clinical Procedure: — Specialty: Surgery OBJECTIVE: Rare disease BACKGROUND: Primary pericardial tumors have a prevalence of between 6.7% and 12.8% of all tumors arising in the cardiac region. Pericar...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5789752/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29362352 http://dx.doi.org/10.12659/AJCR.907408 |
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author | Almobarak, Abdulaziz Adel AlShammari, Abdullah Alhomoudi, Reham I. Eshaq, Abdulaziz M. Algain, Sara Mujahid Jensen, Elyse C. Mohammed, Shamayel Al-Kattan, Khaled Kayali, Zeina AlAmodi, Abdulhadi A. |
author_facet | Almobarak, Abdulaziz Adel AlShammari, Abdullah Alhomoudi, Reham I. Eshaq, Abdulaziz M. Algain, Sara Mujahid Jensen, Elyse C. Mohammed, Shamayel Al-Kattan, Khaled Kayali, Zeina AlAmodi, Abdulhadi A. |
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description | Patient: Male, 30 Final Diagnosis: Benign pericardial schwannoma Symptoms: Chest pain Medication: — Clinical Procedure: — Specialty: Surgery OBJECTIVE: Rare disease BACKGROUND: Primary pericardial tumors have a prevalence of between 6.7% and 12.8% of all tumors arising in the cardiac region. Pericardial schwannoma is a rare entity. It arises from the cardiac plexus and vagus nerve innervating the heart. Most of the reported cases, have presented with benign behavior, however, in rare situations, they can undergo transformation to malignant behavior When comparing the prevalence of cardiac tumors to that of pericardial tumors, the latter is much lower in occurrence. A review of English literature identified six pericardial schwannoma cases. CASE REPORT: We present a case of a 30-year-old male patient who presented to our center with the chief complaint of six months of gradually progressive left chest pain. His past medical history (PMH) was positive for panic attacks (for which he was taking beta-blockers), paroxysmal tachycardia, sweating, and irritability. A computed tomography chest scan was done; a differential diagnosis of paraganglioma was suggested. However, histopathological examination confirmed the pericardial mass was a schwannoma. The patient was surgically treated by thoracotomy to resect the lesion. CONCLUSIONS: This case adds to the existing limited literature on pericardial schwannoma as the seventh reported case. Neurogenic cardiac tumors; our case marks the second case reported to occur in the subcarinal area near the left atrium. |
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spelling | pubmed-57897522018-02-02 Benign Pericardial Schwannoma: Case Report and Summary of Previously Reported Cases Almobarak, Abdulaziz Adel AlShammari, Abdullah Alhomoudi, Reham I. Eshaq, Abdulaziz M. Algain, Sara Mujahid Jensen, Elyse C. Mohammed, Shamayel Al-Kattan, Khaled Kayali, Zeina AlAmodi, Abdulhadi A. Am J Case Rep Articles Patient: Male, 30 Final Diagnosis: Benign pericardial schwannoma Symptoms: Chest pain Medication: — Clinical Procedure: — Specialty: Surgery OBJECTIVE: Rare disease BACKGROUND: Primary pericardial tumors have a prevalence of between 6.7% and 12.8% of all tumors arising in the cardiac region. Pericardial schwannoma is a rare entity. It arises from the cardiac plexus and vagus nerve innervating the heart. Most of the reported cases, have presented with benign behavior, however, in rare situations, they can undergo transformation to malignant behavior When comparing the prevalence of cardiac tumors to that of pericardial tumors, the latter is much lower in occurrence. A review of English literature identified six pericardial schwannoma cases. CASE REPORT: We present a case of a 30-year-old male patient who presented to our center with the chief complaint of six months of gradually progressive left chest pain. His past medical history (PMH) was positive for panic attacks (for which he was taking beta-blockers), paroxysmal tachycardia, sweating, and irritability. A computed tomography chest scan was done; a differential diagnosis of paraganglioma was suggested. However, histopathological examination confirmed the pericardial mass was a schwannoma. The patient was surgically treated by thoracotomy to resect the lesion. CONCLUSIONS: This case adds to the existing limited literature on pericardial schwannoma as the seventh reported case. Neurogenic cardiac tumors; our case marks the second case reported to occur in the subcarinal area near the left atrium. International Scientific Literature, Inc. 2018-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5789752/ /pubmed/29362352 http://dx.doi.org/10.12659/AJCR.907408 Text en © Am J Case Rep, 2018 This work is licensed under Creative Common Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) ) |
spellingShingle | Articles Almobarak, Abdulaziz Adel AlShammari, Abdullah Alhomoudi, Reham I. Eshaq, Abdulaziz M. Algain, Sara Mujahid Jensen, Elyse C. Mohammed, Shamayel Al-Kattan, Khaled Kayali, Zeina AlAmodi, Abdulhadi A. Benign Pericardial Schwannoma: Case Report and Summary of Previously Reported Cases |
title | Benign Pericardial Schwannoma: Case Report and Summary of Previously Reported Cases |
title_full | Benign Pericardial Schwannoma: Case Report and Summary of Previously Reported Cases |
title_fullStr | Benign Pericardial Schwannoma: Case Report and Summary of Previously Reported Cases |
title_full_unstemmed | Benign Pericardial Schwannoma: Case Report and Summary of Previously Reported Cases |
title_short | Benign Pericardial Schwannoma: Case Report and Summary of Previously Reported Cases |
title_sort | benign pericardial schwannoma: case report and summary of previously reported cases |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5789752/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29362352 http://dx.doi.org/10.12659/AJCR.907408 |
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