CASE 675: SCHWANNOMA of C5 ROOT of LEFT BRACHIAL PLEXUS, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, Dr LÊ THỊ THANH THẢO, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM.

A  56 year-old female patient  with left facial numbness [?] for 3 days.

Neck ultrasound at left supraclavicular region detects # 8-19 mm hypoechoic enlargement of left brachial plexus maybe due to schwannoma or neurinoma. While ultrasound examines at the neck region the female patient feels her left upper arm numb sensation (due to affecting the left upper brachial nerves from C 5 root).

MRI confirms a schwannoma tumor #21x12mm of left C 5 root.

Surgery removes the tumor of C 5 root from left brachial plexus which the pathohistology result is the schwannoma of the C5 root.

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