Giant benign esophageal schwannoma requiring esophagectomy.
Benign esophageal schwannomas are rare tumors with only 14 cases reported in the English literature. All previous reports describe excision without major esophageal resection. We report the case of a 33-year-old woman with a giant esophageal schwannoma that required total thoracic esophagectomy.
Park
Bernard J
BJ
Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10021, USA.
Carrasquillo
Julian
J
Bains
Manjit S
MS
Flores
Raja M
RM
D000328:Adult; D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000209:etiology; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016629:Esophagectomy; D005221:Fatigue / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D007582:Jejunostomy; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D011708:Pylorus / Q000601:surgery; D020069:Shoulder Pain / Q000209:etiology; D013908:Thoracotomy