@article{3101340,
    title = "A Giant Intrathoracic Malignant Schwannoma Causing Respiratory Failure in a Patient without von Recklinghausen's Disease",
    author = "Angelopoulos, E. and Eleftheriou, K. and Kyriakopoulos, G. and Athanassiadi, K. and Rontogianni, D. and Routsi, C.",
    journal = "Case Reports in Medicine",
    year = "2016",
    volume = "2016",
    publisher = "Hindawi Limited",
    issn = "1687-9627, 1687-9635",
    doi = "10.1155/2016/2541290",
    keywords = "aged;  Article;  artificial ventilation;  case report;  computer assisted tomography;  female;  histopathology;  human;  human tissue;  lung;  malignant neurilemoma;  mediastinum tumor;  multiple organ failure;  neurofibromatosis;  respiratory failure;  thorax radiography;  thorax tumor;  tumor volume",
    abstract = "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. © 2016 Epameinondas Angelopoulos et al."
}