Superior Pulmonary Sulcus Tumors and Pancoast's Syndrome

Autor:	Selim M. Arcasoy, James R. Jett
Rok vydání:	1997
Předmět:	business.industry Eye disease Respiratory disease Pancoast Syndrome General Medicine Anatomy Pulmonary sulcus Prognosis medicine.disease Trunk Pancoast tumor Carcinoma Bronchogenic Atrophy medicine.anatomical_structure medicine Carcinoma Humans Muscles of the hand business Neoplasm Staging
Zdroj:	New England Journal of Medicine. 337:1370-1376
ISSN:	1533-4406 0028-4793
Popis:	Pancoast's syndrome is a constellation of characteristic symptoms and signs that includes shoulder and arm pain along the distribution of the eighth cervical nerve trunk and first and second thoracic nerve trunks, Horner's syndrome, and weakness and atrophy of the muscles of the hand, most commonly caused by local extension of an apical lung tumor at the superior thoracic inlet.1–3 These tumors are called superior pulmonary sulcus tumors or Pancoast's tumors. Nearly 90 years after the first documented case,4 Pancoast described the clinical and radiologic findings of thoracic-inlet tumors. Pancoast mistakenly believed that these tumors emanated from epithelial rests . . .
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
Externí odkaz:	https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::0ead4167fc49fca1cbcd248750c265df https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199711063371907 Zobrazit plný text záznamu