Malignant schwannoma of the intrathoracic vagus nerve: report of a case.
We report herein the case of a 48-year-old man with malignant schwannoma of the intrathoracic vagus nerve associated with von Recklinghausen's disease. Malignant intrathoracic vagal tumors are extremely rare and to our knowledge, only four other cases have been documented in the literature, none of which were associated with von Recklinghausen's disease.
Maebeya
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Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Wakayama Medical College, Japan.
Miyoshi
S
S
Fujiwara
K
K
Sekii
H
H
Suzuma
T
T
Yosimasu
T
T
Naito
Y
Y
Nishino
E
E
D003390:Cranial Nerve Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D009456:Neurofibromatosis 1 / Q000473:pathology; D011859:Radiography; D014630:Vagus Nerve