Tuberc Respir Dis.
2008 Oct;65(4):318-322.
A Case of Double Primary Neurilemmoma on Both Chest Wall, One of Them is Bulging to Skin from Intercostal Nerve
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- 1Department of Internal Medicine, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. kukim@hosp.sch.ac.kr
- 2Department of Chest Surgery, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
- 3Department of Radiology, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
- 4Department of Pathology, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract
- Neurilemmomas are benign nerve sheath tumors derived from Schwann cells that rarely occur in the chest wall. Neurilemmomas of the chest wall are usually solitary lesions that bulge toward the pleural cavity. Neurilemmomas are confirmed histologically based on the presence of Verocay bodies, Antoni A and Antoni B tissue patterns and S-100 protein. Bilateral neurilemmomas in the chest wall are extremely rare, as are those that grow in the subcutaneous tissue but not the pleural area. We report here a case of bilateral chest wall neurilemmomas in which the tumors bulged out to the skin and were palpable.
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