Tokitsu K, Tachibana S, Kawakami M, Orino T, Nakao K, Morita T, Hashimoto T, Sasaki S
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Osaka Medical College, Japan.
Kyobu Geka. 1997 Jul;50(7):598-601.
A case of benign schwannoma originating from the lowest trunk of the left brachial plexus with intrathoracic extension was reported. Intrathoracic growth of a schwannoma of the brachial plexus has been reported in only 3 cases in the literature. The patient was a 53-year-old man and he was first found to have an abnormal shadow at the left lung apex on the chest roentogenogram. We performed a thoracotomy through the left third intercostal space with an axillary skin incision and removed the tumor completely. There was no neurological problem postoperatively
