Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors of intrathoracic vagus nerve

Journal of Thoracic Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 181-184

  Ogino, Hiroyuki ^a   Hara, Masaki ^a   Satake, Motoharu ^a   Miyagawa, Hideo ^a   Itoh, Masato ^a   Ohba, Satoru ^a   Goodman, Philip C ^b  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Intrathoracic vagal tumor; Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CALCIFICATION; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL NERVE TUMOR; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; VAGUS NERVE DISEASE;

ADULT; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE SHEATH NEOPLASMS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VAGUS NERVE DISEASES;

EID: 0034966967     PISSN: 08835993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005382-200107000-00008     Document Type: Article

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