title: Giant solitary ancient schwannoma of the pleura masquerading as bronchopneumonia.
abstract: We report a 53-year-old female who presented with complaints of sudden onset breathlessness, cough with expectoration for 6 months, and a right lung base lesion in the chest X-ray, which was diagnosed and treated as bronchopneumonia by the family physician. High-resolution computed tomography of the chest was done which revealed a large heterogeneously enhancing mass in the right thoracic cavity. She underwent thoracotomy and was found to have a giant encapsulated and well-circumscribed mass arising from the pleura. Excision biopsy of the mass revealed it to be an ancient schwannoma. Ancient schwannoma of the pleura is a very rare entity. Complete surgical resection is curative.
authors: Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Kovai Medical Center and Hospital, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors: Shegu
authors: S
authors: Gilbert
authors: Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Kovai Medical Center and Hospital, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors: Devender
authors: D
authors: Singh
authors: Department of Cardiac Anesthesia, Kovai Medical Center and Hospital, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors: Sivakumar Manjanaikkanpatti
authors: SM
authors: Kaliappan
authors: Department of Pathology, Kovai Medical Center and Hospital, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors: Sangita Sharma
authors: SS
authors: Mehta
keywords: Neurilemmoma/surgery; peripheral nerve sheath tumor; schwannoma