Abstract
Ancient neurilemoma is a rare variant of neurilemoma and can grow into a large tumor,
which results in several symptoms. It is often misdiagnosed to be malignant neoplasm
because of its histological features of nuclear atypia. The authors reported an 87-year-old
woman presenting with progressive dyspnea and chronic cough for more than 1 year.
Computed tomography of the chest showed a huge heterogeneous, paravertebral mass with
focal calcification, arising from intervertebral foramen. The tumor was successfully
resected by thoracotomy and pathology disclosed ancient neurilemoma.
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Publication history
Accepted:
March 28,
2013
Received:
January 28,
2013
Footnotes
The authors have no financial or other conflicts of interest to disclose.
This study was supported in part by the Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan, Grants TCRD100-53-3 and 100-53-3(2/2).
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© 2013 Southern Society for Clinical Investigation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
