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...

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Main Authors: Angelopoulos, Epameinondas, Eleftheriou, Konstantinos, Kyriakopoulos, Georgios, Athanassiadi, Kalliopi, Rontogianni, Dimitra, Routsi, Christina
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4826934/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27118974
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2541290
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