PMID- 22701490
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20120823
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1687-9635 (Electronic)
IS  - 1687-9627 (Print)
VI  - 2012
DP  - 2012
TI  - Acute respiratory distress in patient with laryngeal schwannoma.
PG  - 616913
LID - 10.1155/2012/616913 [doi]
LID - 616913
AB  - Schwannoma is a neurogenic benign tumour arising from the proliferation of 
      Schwann cells present in the peripheral nerve sheath of myelinated nerves. This 
      proliferation can hypothetically appear in every anatomic region of the human 
      body, but the nerve sheath tumors rarely occur within the larynx. In this paper 
      the authors discuss the case of a 74-year-old female who presented to Emergency 
      Unit (EU) for an important acute respiratory distress. Airway flexible endoscopy 
      revealed a bulky mass of the aryepiglottic fold measuring 3.5 cm in diameter. The 
      patient underwent tracheotomy and a single-step surgical excision treatment of 
      the mass which was recognized as a schwannoma at pathological examination. 
      Tracheotomy was closed 2 weeks postoperatively. After 18 months of followup, the 
      patient is alive and free of disease and her voice had improved markedly.
FAU - Mannarini, Laura
AU  - Mannarini L
AD  - Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Pavia, IRCCS Policlinico S. 
      Matteo Foundation, Pavia, Italy.
FAU - Morbini, Patrizia
AU  - Morbini P
FAU - Bertino, Giulia
AU  - Bertino G
FAU - Gatti, Omar
AU  - Gatti O
FAU - Benazzo, Marco
AU  - Benazzo M
LA  - eng
PT  - Case Reports
DEP - 20120531
PL  - United States
TA  - Case Rep Med
JT  - Case reports in medicine
JID - 101512910
PMC - PMC3369560
EDAT- 2012/06/16 06:00
MHDA- 2012/06/16 06:01
PMCR- 2012/05/31
CRDT- 2012/06/16 06:00
PHST- 2012/03/01 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2012/04/10 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2012/06/16 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/06/16 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/06/16 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2012/05/31 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1155/2012/616913 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Case Rep Med. 2012;2012:616913. doi: 10.1155/2012/616913. Epub 2012 May 31.