A Case of Double Primary Neurilemmoma on Both Chest Wall, One of Them is Bulging to Skin from Intercostal Nerve.

Kim, Chul; Park, Sang Mo; Park, Eui Ju; Jung, Eun Jung; Jang, Won Ho; Kim, Yang Ki; Lee, Young Mok; Kim, Ki Up; Kim, Hyun Zo; Hwang, Jung Hwa; Jin, So Young; Uh, Soo taek

doi:2008.65.4.318

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Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 2008;65(4):318-322.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.2008.65.4.318 Published online October 1, 2008.

A Case of Double Primary Neurilemmoma on Both Chest Wall, One of Them is Bulging to Skin from Intercostal Nerve.

Chul Kim, Sang Mo Park, Eui Ju Park, Eun Jung Jung, Won Ho Jang, Yang Ki Kim, Young Mok Lee, Ki Up Kim, Hyun Zo Kim, Jung Hwa Hwang, So Young Jin, Soo taek Uh

¹Department of Internal Medicine, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. kukim@hosp.sch.ac.kr
²Department of Chest Surgery, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
³Department of Radiology, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
⁴Department of Pathology, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Abstract

Neurilemmomas are benign nerve sheath tumors derived from Schwann cells that rarely occur in the chest wall. Neurilemmomas of the chest wall are usually solitary lesions that bulge toward the pleural cavity. Neurilemmomas are confirmed histologically based on the presence of Verocay bodies, Antoni A and Antoni B tissue patterns and S-100 protein. Bilateral neurilemmomas in the chest wall are extremely rare, as are those that grow in the subcutaneous tissue but not the pleural area. We report here a case of bilateral chest wall neurilemmomas in which the tumors bulged out to the skin and were palpable.

Key Words: Bilateral neurilemmomas, Chest wall