Case reportGiant Asymptomatic Primary Esophageal Schwannoma
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Three types of submucosal tumors can occur in the gastrointestinal tract: myogenic tumors, gastrointestinal stromal tumors, and neurogenic tumors (which include esophageal schwannomas) [2]. Fewer than 2% of all resected esophageal tumors are benign, the most common of them being leiomyomas [3, 4]. Primary esophageal schwannomas are rare, with only 25 cases being reported in the literature [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. Esophageal schwannomas are typically benign; only four tumors have been reported
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