RT Book, Section
A1 Chow, Oliver S.
A1 Wilson, Jennifer L.
A1 Gangadharan, Sidhu P.
A2 Sugarbaker, David J.
A2 Bueno, Raphael
A2 Burt, Bryan M.
A2 Groth, Shawn S.
A2 Loor, Gabriel
A2 Wolf, Andrea S.
A2 Williams, Marcia
A2 Adams, Ann
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ID 1170416584
T1 Neurogenic Tumors of the Posterior Mediastinum
T2 Sugarbaker’s Adult Chest Surgery, 3e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260026931
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1170416584
RD 2024/04/19
AB Neurogenic  tumors  arise  in  tissues  derived  from  the  embryonic  neural  crest.  Further  classification  is  based  on  whether  the  tumor  cell  originates  from  nerve  sheaths,  nerve  cells  (ganglia),  paraganglia,  or  peripheral  nerves  (Table  163-1).  In  the  thorax,  the  intercostal  nerves  represent  the  peripheral  nerves.  The  chief  impediment  to  understanding  thoracic  neurogenic  tumors  is  the  lack  of  uniformity  in  the  nomenclature  used  in  the  published  literature,  and  thus  multiple  descriptors  exist  at  each  taxonomic  level  (Table  163-2).  This  chapter  relies  on  the  nomenclature  endorsed  by  the  most  recent  revision  of  the  World  Health  Organization  classification  of  tumors  derived  from  neural  tissue.1