Rupture of Mediastinal Schwannoma in A Type II Neurofibromatosis Patient Presenting with Traumatic Hemothorax
作者
I-Lin Hsu, Wu-Wei Lai, Wen-Chau Chen*, Ming-Ho Wu
卷期/出版年月
38卷4期 (2005/8)
頁次
189-193
摘要
Traumatic hemothorax caused by a ruptured mediastinal schwannoma is rare. We
report a 30-year-old male who had received a brain tumor operation. He suffered
from postoperative convulsions and took medication regularly. He was sent to our
hospital after a post-seizure traffic accident, and presented with massive left hemothorax
which was found after insertion of chest tubes and unstable vital signs. The
patient was successfully treated by emergent thoracotomy with resection of the ruptured
schwannoma which was bleeding. A deletion mutation with frameshift of neurofibromatosis
type 2 gene was detected by DNA sequencing.