TY - JOUR
TI - A Giant Intrathoracic Malignant Schwannoma Causing Respiratory Failure in a Patient without von Recklinghausen's Disease
AU - Angelopoulos, E.
AU - Eleftheriou, K.
AU - Kyriakopoulos, G.
AU - Athanassiadi, K.
AU - Rontogianni, D.
AU - Routsi, C.
JO - Case Reports in Medicine
PY - 2016
VL - 2016
TODO - null
SP - null
PB - Hindawi Limited
SN - 1687-9627, 1687-9635
TODO - 10.1155/2016/2541290
TODO - 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
TODO - 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.
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