title: Multiple schwannomas of the bilateral mediastinal vagus nerves.
abstract: Multiple schwannomas arising from the mediastinal vagus nerve are very rare, but herein we report a case with such lesions involving the bilateral intrathoracic vagus nerves. A 43-year-old man presented with multiple mediastinal tumors during a check-up. A chest computed tomographic scan revealed multiple lesions that appeared strung together like beads along the right vagus nerve. Three small tumors were also evident on the left side of the esophagus. We performed a complete resection of the bilateral mediastinal tumors through right thoracoscopic surgery. The pathologic diagnosis for each of these tumors was a schwannoma without malignant components.
authors: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan. tks1976@shinshu-u.ac.jp
authors: Takashi
authors: T
authors: Eguchi
authors: Kazuo
authors: K
authors: Yoshida
authors: Nobutaka
authors: N
authors: Kobayashi
authors: Gaku
authors: G
authors: Saito
authors: Kazutoshi
authors: K
authors: Hamanaka
authors: Takayuki
authors: T
authors: Shiina
authors: Makoto
authors: M
authors: Kurai
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008482:Mediastinum; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D010524:Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D014630:Vagus Nerve