%0 Journal Article
%T A report of three cases of surgical removal of esophageal schwannomas
%A Haibo Sun
%A Huaiping Fu
%A Ruixiang Zhang
%A Xianben Liu
%A Xiankai Chen
%A Yan Zheng
%A Yin Li
%A Zongfei Wang
%J SCIE-indexed Journal
%D 2016
%R 10.21037/jtd.2016.03.41
%X Benign primary tumors of the esophagus are uncommon; most cases of benign esophageal tumors include leiomyomas and cases of esophageal schwannomas are extremely rare. We report three cases that were diagnosed with a leiomyoma pre-operatively, but all the tumors were identified as a schwannoma on post-operative pathology (Table 1). The nearest patient underwent thoracoscopical surgery and the other two patients underwent right thoracotomy
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