Intrathoracic Tumours

Intrathoracic neural tumours.

The experience of one regional thoracic surgical unit in managing intrathoracic neural tumours over a 25-year period is presented. Neural tumour was diagnosed in 55 patients, of whom 41 were asymptomatic. In 11 patients complete resection was not achieved--the reasons for this and its effect on the outcome of the patient are discussed. There were 52 posterior mediastinal and three lateral chest...

Intrathoracic vagus nerve tumours.

Primary intrathoracic neural tumours.

TERMINOLOGY Each axon cylinder is encased in a sheath of Schwann cells, and the tumour arising from this, the specific nerve sheath, is the Schwannoma or neurilemmoma. Groups of axon cylinders comprising a peripheral nerve are enmeshed in a non-specific sheath of fibrous tissue, and tumours arising from this non-specific nerve sheath are neurofibromata. In some nerve sheath tumours clear histol...

Neurogenic tumours with an intrathoracic localization.

Neurogenic tumours form one of the most frequent anomalies of the mediastinum. In the material of our department this diagnosis was made in 15% of the patients who had an affection of the mediastinum. Only intrathoracic and retrosternal struma occurred with a slightly higher frequency than neurogenic tumours. The literature contains numerous papers on intrathoracically localized neurogenic tumo...

Primary intrathoracic malignant mesenchymal tumours: computed tomography features of a rare group of chest neoplasms

OBJECTIVES To describe the computed tomography (CT) features in a case series of primary intrathoracic extracardiac malignant mesenchymal tumours (sarcomas). METHODS A 5-year retrospective research was conducted, and 18 patients were selected. CT exams were reviewed by two chest radiologists, blinded to tumour pathological type, origin and grade. Lesions were described in relation to location...