Resection of a posterior mediastinal mass: Lessons learned from a failed exploration for presumed schwannoma Samuel Kim, MD, Brian Yoo, MD, Ali Baaj,

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Resection of a posterior mediastinal mass: Lessons learned from a failed exploration for presumed schwannoma Samuel Kim, MD, Brian Yoo, MD, Ali Baaj, MD, Alex G. Little, MD The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Volume 152, Issue 4, Pages e75-e77 (October 2016) DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2016.04.030 Copyright © 2016 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 Intraoperative photograph of the resected tumor and the operative field after the resection. The arrows indicate ligated intercostal arteries. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2016 152, e75-e77DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2016.04.030) Copyright © 2016 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

Figure 2 Side-by-side comparison of thoracic chordoma (A) versus extradural schwannoma (B). Schwannoma is usually lobulated, encapsulated, and well demarcated, as shown in (B). There is a loss of plane between the spine and tumor in chordoma, as shown in (A). The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2016 152, e75-e77DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2016.04.030) Copyright © 2016 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

Side-by-side comparison of thoracic chordoma versus extradural schwannoma. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2016 152, e75-e77DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2016.04.030) Copyright © 2016 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions