Open AccessLingual schwannoma
Author(s) -
Murat Enöz,
Yusufhan Süoğlu,
Rıdvan İlhan
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.25856
Subject(s) - schwannoma , neurilemoma , tongue , nerve sheath , medicine , head and neck , nerve sheath tumor , lesion , anatomy , tongue neoplasm , pathology , surgery
Schwannomas or neurilemmomas are benign, slow growing, usually solitary and encapsulated tumor, originating from Schwann cells of the nerve sheath. Intraoral schwannoma accounts for 1% of head and neck region and are commonly seen at the base region of tongue. Most of the few such reports in the literature, have described schwannomas that occurred in the tongue. In this article, we report a rare case of lingual schwannoma involving the anterior of tongue, in a young individual, in whom the lesion was completely excised via an intra oral approach.