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Primary thyroid schwannoma masquerading as a thyroid nodule
The thyroid gland is a very rare site for head and neck schwannomas. Till date there have been only 19 reported cases in English literature. Only 25% of schwannomas occur in the head and neck region, most of them arising in relation to the peripheral nerves and cervical sympathetic chain. We report...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4171691/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25249001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rju094 |
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author | Dhar, Harsh Dabholkar, Jyoti P. Kandalkar, Bhuwaneshwari M. Ghodke, Ratnaprabha |
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description | The thyroid gland is a very rare site for head and neck schwannomas. Till date there have been only 19 reported cases in English literature. Only 25% of schwannomas occur in the head and neck region, most of them arising in relation to the peripheral nerves and cervical sympathetic chain. We report a similar case, with clinical and sonological features of a benign thyroid nodule. The diagnosis of schwannoma was established on the final histopathology report and a review of the slides and the imaging was done to confirm the site of origin. A thorough review of earlier reported cases was done. We summarize the existing knowledge on this entity, emphasizing the challenge of diagnosing it pre-operatively. |
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spelling | pubmed-41716912014-09-23 Primary thyroid schwannoma masquerading as a thyroid nodule Dhar, Harsh Dabholkar, Jyoti P. Kandalkar, Bhuwaneshwari M. Ghodke, Ratnaprabha J Surg Case Rep Case Reports The thyroid gland is a very rare site for head and neck schwannomas. Till date there have been only 19 reported cases in English literature. Only 25% of schwannomas occur in the head and neck region, most of them arising in relation to the peripheral nerves and cervical sympathetic chain. We report a similar case, with clinical and sonological features of a benign thyroid nodule. The diagnosis of schwannoma was established on the final histopathology report and a review of the slides and the imaging was done to confirm the site of origin. A thorough review of earlier reported cases was done. We summarize the existing knowledge on this entity, emphasizing the challenge of diagnosing it pre-operatively. Oxford University Press 2014-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4171691/ /pubmed/25249001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rju094 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author 2014. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
spellingShingle | Case Reports Dhar, Harsh Dabholkar, Jyoti P. Kandalkar, Bhuwaneshwari M. Ghodke, Ratnaprabha Primary thyroid schwannoma masquerading as a thyroid nodule |
title | Primary thyroid schwannoma masquerading as a thyroid nodule |
title_full | Primary thyroid schwannoma masquerading as a thyroid nodule |
title_fullStr | Primary thyroid schwannoma masquerading as a thyroid nodule |
title_full_unstemmed | Primary thyroid schwannoma masquerading as a thyroid nodule |
title_short | Primary thyroid schwannoma masquerading as a thyroid nodule |
title_sort | primary thyroid schwannoma masquerading as a thyroid nodule |
topic | Case Reports |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4171691/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25249001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rju094 |
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