Case reportBenign Esophageal Schwannoma Compressing the Trachea in Pregnancy
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The most common submucosal tumors of the digestive tract are leiomyomas, especially in the esophagus and stomach. Daimaru and colleagues [1] investigated 306 gastrointestinal spindle-cell tumor specimens by immunohistochemistry and identified 24 cases (7.8%) as schwannomas. Esophageal schwannoma is extremely rare, with only 30 reported cases. Reviews of previous reports [2, 3, 4] indicate that benign schwannomas are usually located in the upper esophagus and occur in middle-aged women. The most
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