Thoracic Inlet Tumors
Authors: NORMAN G. G. HEPPER
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1966)

Article1 May 1966Thoracic Inlet TumorsNORMAN G. G. HEPPER, M.D., F.A.C.P., TEODORO HERSKOVIC, M.D., DAVID M. WITTEN, M.D., DONALD W. MULDER, M.D., LEWIS B. WOOLNER, M.D.NORMAN G. G. HEPPER, M.D., F.A.C.P., TEODORO HERSKOVIC, M.D., DAVID M. WITTEN, M.D., DONALD W. MULDER, M.D., LEWIS B. WOOLNER, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-64-5-979 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptAlthough not the first to describe such cases (1-3), Pancoast (4, 5) drew lasting attention to the clinical syndrome often associated with tumors located at the extreme apex of the lung or the thoracic inlet in two papers in which he described seven cases. This syndrome, which has since come to be known as Pancoast's syndrome, was originally described as consisting of pain around the shoulder and down the arm, Horner's syndrome, atrophy of muscles of the hand, and roentgenographic evidence of a small shadow at the extreme apex of the lung and always more or less local rib destruction...References1. HARE ES: Tumor involving certain nerves. London Med. Gazette 23: 16, 1838. Google Scholar2. RICALDONI A: Paralisis atrofica radicular inferior del plexo braquial por esclerosis epiteliomata procidento del dorno pleural in el curso de un cancer latente del pulmon: las lesiones irradientes del dorno pleural. An. Fac. Med. Montev. p. 770, 1918. Google Scholar3. TOBÍAS JW: Sindrome ápico-costo-vertebral doloroso por tumor apexiano: su valor diagnóstico en el cáncer primitivo pulmonar. Rev. Méd. Latino-Americana 17: 1522, 1932. Google Scholar4. PANCOAST HK: Importance of careful roentgen-ray investigations of apical chest tumors. 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