Abstract
A patient with a schwannoma of the intrathoracic vagus nerve is presented. The tumor invaded the trachea and caused dyspnea. It was successfully excised by a segmental resection of the trachea with end-to-end anastomosis. This instance of an intrathoracic vagus tumor invading the trachea is, as far as we know, the first reported in the world.
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Yano, T., Hara, N., Ichinose, Y. et al. An intrathoracic vagus nerve schwannoma invading the trachea. Surg Today 23, 1113–1115 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00309105
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00309105