Chest Wall Schwannoma: Case Report and a Review of Imaging Findings

A chest wall schwannoma arises from peripheral nerve sheath Schwann cells of the intercostal nerves. We describe the presentation and imaging findings of a patient who presented with a chest wall swelling. The imaging findings were highly suspicious for a chest wall schwannoma and the histopathology...

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Autores principales: Muneeb, Aeman, Khan, Muhammad Salman, Iqbal, Hina, Shafqat, Gulnaz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6390888/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30838166
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3694
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description A chest wall schwannoma arises from peripheral nerve sheath Schwann cells of the intercostal nerves. We describe the presentation and imaging findings of a patient who presented with a chest wall swelling. The imaging findings were highly suspicious for a chest wall schwannoma and the histopathology confirmed the diagnosis following surgical excision. Imaging findings are reviewed in detail.
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spelling pubmed-63908882019-03-05 Chest Wall Schwannoma: Case Report and a Review of Imaging Findings Muneeb, Aeman Khan, Muhammad Salman Iqbal, Hina Shafqat, Gulnaz Cureus Neurology A chest wall schwannoma arises from peripheral nerve sheath Schwann cells of the intercostal nerves. We describe the presentation and imaging findings of a patient who presented with a chest wall swelling. The imaging findings were highly suspicious for a chest wall schwannoma and the histopathology confirmed the diagnosis following surgical excision. Imaging findings are reviewed in detail. Cureus 2018-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6390888/ /pubmed/30838166 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.3694 Text en Copyright © 2018, Muneeb et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Chest Wall Schwannoma: Case Report and a Review of Imaging Findings
title_sort chest wall schwannoma: case report and a review of imaging findings
topic Neurology
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