title: [Benign intercostal nerve schwannoma simulating pulmonary neoplasm: case report].
abstract: A 37 years-old white man, smoker, was interned for having dry cough and pain in the left hemithorax (HE). The exam has show diminished vesicle mumble in the medium third part of the HE. The thorax computer tomography showed expansive nodular lesion of the 7 degrees coster arch projecting within the HE, with density of the bulk part and discreet enhance by the contrast. Imuno-histochemistry was compatible to benign schwannoma. We consider the intercostal benign schwannoma diagnosis must be taken before all the posterior or lateral intrathoracic mass that follows with small syntomathology and absence of clinical manifestation of malignity.
authors.affiliation: Hospitais da Pontifícia, Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil. arteagarodriguez@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Carlos Arteaga
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Rodríguez
authors.forename: Alexandre Henrique Naréssi
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Munhoz
authors.forename: José Antonio
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Zampier
authors.forename: Antonio Pádua Gómez
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.forename: Otto Hernández
authors.initials: OH
authors.lastname: Fustes
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007367:Intercostal Nerves; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D010524:Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed