1. International Journal of Surgery
Superiority of resection over enucleation for schwannomas of the cervical vagus nerve: A retrospective cohort study of 22 consecutive patients 
Giulio Illuminati, Giulia Pizzardi, Antonio Minni, Federica Masci, Bernardo Ciamberlano, Rocco Pasqua, Francesco G. Calio, Francesco Vietri 
International Journal of Surgery 
Volume 29, Pages (May 2016)
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2. Fig. 1
CT scan of the neck showing a 3 cm schwannoma of the right cervical vagus nerve displacing the internal carotid artery and the internal jugular vein.
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3. Fig. 2
Intraoperative view of en bloc resection of a schwannoma of the cervical vagus nerve: the surgical field during isolation of the mass (A) and after removal of the tumor (B).
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4. Fig. 3
Life-table analysis of operation-specific freedom from local recurrence of patients undergoing enucleation (A) and resection (B) of a schwannoma of the cervical vagus nerve, showing a better efficacy of resection in preventing local recurrence (p ≤ 0.05).
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