BENIGN THORACIC SCHWANNOMA AND POSTOPERATIVE CHYLOTHORAX - CASE-REPORT AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

Among all the neurogenic tumours, the benign intrathoracic schwannoma is a rare tumour. Most often it is discovered by accident in the cours e of a routine X-ray examination of the thorax. Symptoms appear only w hen size becomes important. The surgical removal of an intrathoracic s chwannoma may result in the development of a chylothorax. According to the literature, its treatment remains controversial. The originality of the case we report here is on the one hand the exceptional size of the tumour and the success over the long term of conservative treatmen t with complete parenteral alimentation, and on the other hand, the in efficacy of the subcutaneous administration of the analogue of somatos tatin in reducing a chylothorax with high outflow.