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상완신경총의 신경초종

최종욱1, 김용환1, 이은수1, 최건1
Jong-Ouck Choi1, Yong-Whoan Kim1, Eun-Soo Lee1, Gun Choi1
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1고려대학교 의과대학 이비인후-두경부외과학교실
1Department of otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

© Copyright 1997 The Busan, Ulsan, Gyeoungnam Branch of Korean Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: May 31, 2020

ABSTRACT

Neurilemmoma is a benign nerve tumor which has been described as painless mass and is usually discovered incidentally. Neurilemmoma of the brachial plexus is rare lesion.

The initial presentation is usually a painless, supraclavicular mass (level V), but patient has a tingling sensation in the affected forearm. We operated 3 cases of brachial plexus neurilemmoma under microscope and intraoperative nerve action potential monitoring without neurologic complication. Recently we experienced rare cases of neurilemmoma arising from brachial plexus and so we report our cases with a brief review of literature.

Keywords: Brachial plexus; Neurilemmoma; Intraoperative EMG