Massive phrenic perineurioma mimicking an unresectable cardiac tumor.
Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors of the phrenic nerve are rare. A 24-year-old woman presented with a massive perineurioma of the phrenic nerve that invaded the pericardium and left heart. Diagnosis, surgical treatment, and 1-year follow-up are discussed.
Ewy
M F
MF
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Missouri, Columbia 65212, USA.
Demmy
T L
TL
Perry
M C
MC
Krishnan
M S
MS
Curtis
J J
JJ
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D010524:Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D010791:Phrenic Nerve