Pancoast Tumor With Cardiac Metastases and Intracardiac Thrombosis.

Pancoast tumor is a rare and aggressive form of lung cancer; cardiac metastasis is very uncommon. We present a case of advanced Pancoast tumor, with extensive cardiac metastases and intracardiac thrombosis in a woman presenting with dyspnea, shoulder pain, and weight loss. A contrast-enhanced chest computed tomographic scan revealed an apical mass, metastatic thoracic nodes, and filling defects within both ventricles.

Microsurgical DREZotomy for pain related to Pancoast-Tobias syndrome: how I do it?

Background: Neuralgic pain related to Pancoast-Tobias syndrome can be difficult to treat. An invasive but effective option for management is open cervical DREZotomy.

Method: This procedure involves the interruption of the dorsal root entry zone (A delta and C fibers) that sustains the nociceptive pathways.

Anatomic evaluation of Pancoast tumors using three-dimensional models for surgical strategy development.

Objective: Pancoast tumor resection planning requires precise interpretation of 2-dimensional images. We hypothesized that patient-specific 3-dimensional reconstructions, providing intuitive views of anatomy, would enable superior anatomic assessment.

Methods: Cross-sectional images from 9 patients with representative Pancoast tumors, selected from an institutional database, were randomly assigned to presentation as 2-dimensional images, 3-dimensional virtual reconstruction, or 3-dimensional physical reconstruction.

Pancoast Tumor Presenting as Neck Pain in the Chiropractic Office: A Case Report and Literature Review.

BACKGROUND Pancoast tumors, also called superior sulcus tumors, are a rare type of cancer affecting the lung apex. These tumors can spread to the brachial plexus and spine and present with symptoms that appear to be of musculoskeletal origin. CASE REPORT A 59-year-old Asian man presented to a chiropractor in Hong Kong with a 1-month history of neck and shoulder pain and numbness that had been treated unsuccessfully with exercise, medications, and acupuncture.

Hybrid robotic lobectomy with thoracic wall resection for superior sulcus tumor.

A major challenge in treating superior sulcus tumors is achieving complete surgical resection because of technical difficulties associated with the anatomical structures and approaches to the thorax. Our technique combines posterior minimally invasive thoracotomy with robot-assisted right upper lobectomy, thereby reducing the invasiveness of the surgical approach and postoperative complications, including wound pain. In the presented case, the tumor was located on the apical right upper lobe, directly invading the apical thoracic wall structures.

Single-Stage Posterior Approach for the En Bloc Resection and Spinal Reconstruction of T4 Pancoast Tumors Invading the Spine.

Study Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the outcomes of patients who had T4 Pancoast tumors invading the spine and underwent en bloc resection and spinal stabilization through a single-stage posterior approach.

Overview Of Literature: Surgical resection for Pancoast tumors affecting the spine has been successfully performed in two stages involving spinal reconstruction and tumor resection.

Pancoast tumor presenting with multiple joint pains: a case report.

Background: Pancoast tumors represent a unique subset of lung cancers wherein a primary neoplasm arises in the lung's apex and invades the surrounding soft tissues. One of the main challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of these apical lung cancers is that they are usually not visualized on initial chest x-ray and, by the time the patient presents with symptoms, the tumor has almost always invaded nearby structures.

Case Presentation: Herein we report a case of a 58-year-old nonsmoking African American male who presented to the neurology clinic with a history of multiple chronic joint pains.