Extracranial non-vestibular head and neck schwannomas

• DOI: 10.15537/smj.2015.11.12314
• Publication Date: 2015-11-23T07:34:02Z
• Authors: Baoxin Wang; Junjie Yuan; Xinwei Chen; Hongming Xu; Yuan Zhou; Pin Dong
• Keywords: Medical record

To retrospectively describe our 10-year experience with extracranial non-vestibular head and neck schwannomas by presenting their clinical features, diagnostic methods, surgical decisions, treatment outcomes.This is a retrospective study conducted at the Department of Otolaryngology, Head Neck Surgery, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated First People's Hospital, Shanghai, China. The medical records 46 patients diagnosed schwannoma in region as confirmed on paraffin-embedded sections from January 2003 to December 2012 were reviewed.All tumors benign, 52% presented asymptomatic palpable solitary masses. Compressive symptoms, which can represent meaningful indicators nerve origin commonly noted. most common was brachial plexus (n=13, 28.3%).While postoperative histopathologic examination still gold standard, fine needle aspiration cytology, CT scan, magnetic resonance imaging may be useful diagnosis schwannomas. As are radioresistant, as, despite benign nature, cause severe secondary best choice complete excision preservation functions.