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Pancoast's syndrome is a constellation of characteristic symptoms and signs that includes shoulder and arm pain along the distribution of the eighth cervical nerve trunk and first and second thoracic nerve trunks, Horner's syndrome, and weakness and atrophy of the muscles of the hand, most commonly caused by local extension of an apical lung tumor at the superior thoracic inlet.^1,2,3 These tumors are called superior pulmonary sulcus tumors or Pancoast's tumors. Nearly 90 years after the first documented case,⁴ Pancoast described the clinical and radiologic findings of thoracic-inlet tumors. Pancoast mistakenly believed that these tumors emanated from epithelial rests of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Staging and Preoperative Assessment

Treatment

Radiotherapy and Surgery

Chemotherapy

Survival and Prognosis

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From the Divisions of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (S.M.A.); and the Division of Thoracic Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. (J.R.J.).

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