A Giant Intrathoracic Malignant Schwannoma Causing Respiratory Failure in a Patient without von Recklinghausen's Disease.
We report an unusual case of a thoracic opacity due to a huge mediastinal malignant schwannoma which compressed the whole left lung and the mediastinum causing respiratory failure in a 73-year-old woman without von Recklinghausen's disease. Although the tumor was resected, the patient failed to wean from mechanical ventilation and died one month later because of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
First Critical Care Department, School of Medicine, University of Athens and Evangelismos Hospital, Ypsilantou 45-47, 106 76 Athens, Greece.
Epameinondas
E
Angelopoulos
First Critical Care Department, School of Medicine, University of Athens and Evangelismos Hospital, Ypsilantou 45-47, 106 76 Athens, Greece.
Konstantinos
K
Eleftheriou
Department of Pathology, Evangelismos Hospital, Ypsilantou 45-47, 106 76 Athens, Greece.
Georgios
G
Kyriakopoulos
Unit of Thoracic Surgery, Evangelismos Hospital, Ypsilantou 45-47, 106 76 Athens, Greece.
Kalliopi
K
Athanassiadi
Department of Pathology, Evangelismos Hospital, Ypsilantou 45-47, 106 76 Athens, Greece.
Dimitra
D
Rontogianni
First Critical Care Department, School of Medicine, University of Athens and Evangelismos Hospital, Ypsilantou 45-47, 106 76 Athens, Greece.
Christina
C
Routsi