Mediastinal neurilemmoma originating from the intrathoracic vagal nerve. A case report.

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An asymptomatic 29-year-old woman was admitted to our department when a routine screening chest X-ray film demonstrated a mass in the middle portion of the left mediastinum. Computed tomography of the chest confirmed the presence of well-circumscribed mass in the middle mediastinum adjacent to the aortic arch. With a presumptive diagnosis of benign tumor, left thoracotomy was carried out. An encapsulated tumor originating from the left vagal nerve was found, and the vagal nerve was transected to remove the tumor. The postoperative course was uneventful, although there was mild and transient hoarseness. The pathological diagnosis was neurilemmoma.
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