A case of a giant thoracic schwannoma

BACKGROUND: Giant solitary schwannomas are rare, benign, and typically slow-growing tumors reaching up to 20 cm in size. CASE DESCRIPTION: A 43-year-old male presented with shortness of breath and chest pain. The thoracic MRI showed a giant mass 15 cm in diameter filling the left chest cavity. The l...

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Autores principales: Saleemi, Mohammad Saleem, Abdelwahab, Ahmed Ossama Yassin, Abdelwahab, Muhammad Ossama Yassin, George, K. Joshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Scientific Scholar 2022
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9168308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35673659
http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/SNI_151_2022
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Giant solitary schwannomas are rare, benign, and typically slow-growing tumors reaching up to 20 cm in size. CASE DESCRIPTION: A 43-year-old male presented with shortness of breath and chest pain. The thoracic MRI showed a giant mass 15 cm in diameter filling the left chest cavity. The lesion was resected utilizing intrathoracic approach and required a multilevel approach. Vertebrectomy with instrumented fusion was performed. The pathological diagnosis was benign schwannoma without nuclear atypia. Postoperatively, the patient fully recovered without sequelae. CONCLUSION: A 43-year-old male presented with a 15 cm diameter chest mass that proved to be a schwannoma that was resected without long-term sequelae.

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