Intracranial schwannoma as atypical facial pain. Case report.
Facial pain is a common complaint that leads those who have it to seek professional help. Often times, the general dentist is the first clinician that a patient consults because of a presumed odontogenic origin of the pain. Occasionally a small number of these patients will be found to have an intracranial tumor. The case reported here is one such patient who was diagnosed and treated for a seventh nerve schwannoma.
Sollecito
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School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Richardson
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Quinn
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Cohen
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D000328:Adult; D003390:Cranial Nerve Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D005155:Facial Nerve Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D005157:Facial Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000150:complications*