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When the patient\u2019s neck mass was initially found with hoarseness and severe cough, it was considered as cervical lymph node metastasis of lung cancer due to her medical history. And she was diagnosed with schwannoma by core-needle biopsy after chemotherapy failed and the tumor shrank after the radiotherapy with no improvement of the clinical symptoms. After considering the physical condition, the patients were treated in our department for minimal invasiveness treatment. The patient was definitively diagnosed with cervical vagus schwannoma and was treated with ultrasound-guided microwave ablation of schwannoma under general anesthesia with systematic evaluation and improved preoperative examination. Her condition was stable, and the symptoms of severe cough disappeared after anesthesia resuscitation and the ablation. The tumor continued to shrink after the operation with no recurrence of cough symptoms. Ultrasound-guided percutaneous microwave ablation (MWA) for cervical vagus schwannomas might be a minimally invasive, effective, and relatively safe alternative to conventional treatment for those patients with severe symptoms.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3233\/ch-211301","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,3]],"date-time":"2021-12-03T10:53:11Z","timestamp":1638528791000},"page":"437-446","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["The first experience of ultrasound-guided percutaneous microwave ablation for extracranial schwannoma of the cervical vagus nerve in carotid space and treatment response evaluation with contrast-enhanced imaging: A case report"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"80","author":[{"given":"Jing-E","family":"Zhu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Center of Minimally Invasive Treatment for Tumor, Department of Medical Ultrasound, Shanghai Tenth People\u2019s Hospital, Shanghai, China"},{"name":"Ultrasound Research and Education 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