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Benign Schwannoma of the Esophagus-Surgical experience of two cases-  

Byun Joung-Hun (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Kosin University College of Medicine)
Park Sung-Dal (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Kosin University College of Medicine)
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Journal of Chest Surgery / v.38, no.8, 2005 , pp. 589-593 More about this Journal
Abstract
Esophageal schwannoma is very rare and almost of all cases are diagnosed as esophageal submucosal tumor preoperatively. Final diagnosis is made by postoperative immunohistochemical (IHC) staining of the surgical specimen. We experienced two cases of esophageal submucosal tumor, one was 63 year old female suffering from three months of dysphagia and another was 39 year old female complaining of two months of intermittent dysphagia. Two esophageal tumors were completely removed by esophagectomy and enucleation through right thoracotomy respectively. Postoperative IHC staining demonstrated S-100 positive without mitotic figures and confirmative diagnosed was made as benign esopphageal schwannoma.
Keywords
Schwannoma; Esophageal neoplasms;
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