A Rare Case of Large Schwannoma of the Parapharyngeal Space

Schwannoma originating from the peripheral nerves is a rare lesion of the parapharyngeal space. The special traits of the presented case included the following: the patient presented with slowly progressing dysphagia, speech difficulties, jaw numbness, and taste dysfunction. A dislocated lateral pha...

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Autores principales: Siupsinskiene, Nora, Arechvo, Irina, Lapinskaite, Rimante, Padervinskis, Evaldas, Ryskiene, Silvija, Vaitkus, Saulius
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6020505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30009069
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/9870937
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author Siupsinskiene, Nora
Arechvo, Irina
Lapinskaite, Rimante
Padervinskis, Evaldas
Ryskiene, Silvija
Vaitkus, Saulius
author_facet Siupsinskiene, Nora
Arechvo, Irina
Lapinskaite, Rimante
Padervinskis, Evaldas
Ryskiene, Silvija
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description Schwannoma originating from the peripheral nerves is a rare lesion of the parapharyngeal space. The special traits of the presented case included the following: the patient presented with slowly progressing dysphagia, speech difficulties, jaw numbness, and taste dysfunction. A dislocated lateral pharyngeal wall with mild inflammatory changes of the oropharyngeal mucosa was observed during pharyngoscopy. The radiological and histological characteristics of the neoplasm are consequently presented. Special emphasis is placed on the surgical treatment of the tumor.
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spelling pubmed-60205052018-07-15 A Rare Case of Large Schwannoma of the Parapharyngeal Space Siupsinskiene, Nora Arechvo, Irina Lapinskaite, Rimante Padervinskis, Evaldas Ryskiene, Silvija Vaitkus, Saulius Case Rep Otolaryngol Case Report Schwannoma originating from the peripheral nerves is a rare lesion of the parapharyngeal space. The special traits of the presented case included the following: the patient presented with slowly progressing dysphagia, speech difficulties, jaw numbness, and taste dysfunction. A dislocated lateral pharyngeal wall with mild inflammatory changes of the oropharyngeal mucosa was observed during pharyngoscopy. The radiological and histological characteristics of the neoplasm are consequently presented. Special emphasis is placed on the surgical treatment of the tumor. Hindawi 2018-06-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6020505/ /pubmed/30009069 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/9870937 Text en Copyright © 2018 Nora Siupsinskiene et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Siupsinskiene, Nora
Arechvo, Irina
Lapinskaite, Rimante
Padervinskis, Evaldas
Ryskiene, Silvija
Vaitkus, Saulius
A Rare Case of Large Schwannoma of the Parapharyngeal Space
title A Rare Case of Large Schwannoma of the Parapharyngeal Space
title_full A Rare Case of Large Schwannoma of the Parapharyngeal Space
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Large Schwannoma of the Parapharyngeal Space
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title_short A Rare Case of Large Schwannoma of the Parapharyngeal Space
title_sort rare case of large schwannoma of the parapharyngeal space
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6020505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30009069
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/9870937
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