1. 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)
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2. Figure 1
Intraoperative photograph of the resected tumor and the operative field after the resection. The arrows indicate ligated intercostal arteries.
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3. 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).
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4. Side-by-side comparison of thoracic chordoma versus extradural schwannoma.
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