TY - JOUR AU - Panagopoulos, Nikolaos AU - Leivaditis, Vasilios AU - Koletsis, Efstratios AU - Prokakis, Christos AU - Alexopoulos, Panagiotis AU - Baltayiannis, Nikolaos AU - Hatzimichalis, Antonios AU - Tsakiridis, Kosmas AU - Zarogoulidis, Paul AU - Zarogoulidis, Konstantinos AU - Katsikogiannis, Nikolaos AU - Kougioumtzi, Ioanna AU - Machairiotis, Nikolaos AU - Tsiouda, Theodora AU - Kesisis, Georgios AU - Siminelakis, Stavros AU - Madesis, Athanasios AU - Dougenis, Dimitrios PY - 2014 TI - Pancoast tumors: characteristics and preoperative assessment JF - Journal of Thoracic Disease; Vol 6, Supplement 1 (March 24, 2014): Journal of Thoracic Disease (Cardiothoracic diseases closely related from diagnosis to treatment) Y2 - 2014 KW - N2 - Superior sulcus tumors (SSTs), or as otherwise known Pancoast tumors, make up a clinically unique and challenging subset of non-small cell carcinoma of the lung (NSCLC). Although the outcome of patients with this disease has traditionally been poor, recent developments have contributed to a significant improvement in prognosis of SST patients. The combination of severe and unrelenting shoulder and arm pain along the distribution of the eighth cervical and first and second thoracic nerve trunks, Horner’s syndrome (ptosis, miosis, and anhidrosis) and atrophy of the intrinsic hand muscles comprises a clinical entity named as “Pancoast-Tobias syndrome”. Apart NSCLC, other lesions may, although less frequently, result in Pancoast syndrome. In the current review we will present the main characteristics of the disease and focus on the preoperative assessment. UR - https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/2145