title: Intrapulmonary schwannoma in the right middle lobe: a case report.
abstract: Herein, we report a patient with a rare disease, intrapulmonary schwannoma. The patient was a 61-year-old woman who had a 20 mm × 18 mm nodule, with a clear boundary and homogeneous content, on the central side of S4 in the right lung on chest CT. On PET with 18- fluorodeoxyglucose scanning, 18-fluorodeoxyglucose accumulations with a maximal standardized uptake value of 2.5 and 3.3 were observed in the early and late phases, respectively, suggesting a malignant tumor. A thoracoscopic right middle lobectomy was performed because the tumor was present in the segmental bronchial region of the middle lobe. Intrapulmonary schwannoma accounts for 0.2% of lung tumor cases, and cases involving patients who have undergone preoperative PET with 18- fluorodeoxyglucose scanning have rarely been reported.
authors: Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Tottori University Hospital, Yonago, Japan. shinji-f-oka@med.tottori-u.ac.jp
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Fujioka
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Nakamura
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Miwa
authors: Y
authors: Y
authors: Taniguchi
authors: T
authors: T
authors: Haruki
authors: Y
authors: Y
authors: Takagi
authors: Y
authors: Y
authors: Yurugi
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D011013:Pneumonectomy