Supraclavicular Cervical Schwannoma: A Case Report

Schwannoma generally occurs in the vestibular nerve. Cervical schwannomas are quite rare. Herein, we present a case of slow-growing asymptomatic supraclavicular schwannoma in an elderly woman of 74 years. The patient was managed conservatively with regular follow-up as the tumor showed slow progress...

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Autores principales: Mohammed, Mohammed Elkarim, Khan, Abdullatif, Asiri, Mohammed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Otolaryngology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6857825/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31788381
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5924
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description Schwannoma generally occurs in the vestibular nerve. Cervical schwannomas are quite rare. Herein, we present a case of slow-growing asymptomatic supraclavicular schwannoma in an elderly woman of 74 years. The patient was managed conservatively with regular follow-up as the tumor showed slow progressive growth (presented after seven years) and asymptomatic.
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spelling pubmed-68578252019-11-30 Supraclavicular Cervical Schwannoma: A Case Report Mohammed, Mohammed Elkarim Khan, Abdullatif Asiri, Mohammed Cureus Otolaryngology Schwannoma generally occurs in the vestibular nerve. Cervical schwannomas are quite rare. Herein, we present a case of slow-growing asymptomatic supraclavicular schwannoma in an elderly woman of 74 years. The patient was managed conservatively with regular follow-up as the tumor showed slow progressive growth (presented after seven years) and asymptomatic. Cureus 2019-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6857825/ /pubmed/31788381 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5924 Text en Copyright © 2019, Mohammed et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Otolaryngology
Mohammed, Mohammed Elkarim
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Supraclavicular Cervical Schwannoma: A Case Report
title Supraclavicular Cervical Schwannoma: A Case Report
title_full Supraclavicular Cervical Schwannoma: A Case Report
title_fullStr Supraclavicular Cervical Schwannoma: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Supraclavicular Cervical Schwannoma: A Case Report
title_short Supraclavicular Cervical Schwannoma: A Case Report
title_sort supraclavicular cervical schwannoma: a case report
topic Otolaryngology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6857825/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31788381
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5924
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