Sinonasal neurogenic tumours.
Among the surgically excised or biopsied sinonasal tumours in a span of ten years, the neurogenic tumours formed 6.7% of all sinonasal tumours. They were eight in number, three schwannomas, two neurofibromas and three malignant schwannomas with occurrence in a wide age range and no gender predilection. Nasal obstruction and epistaxis were common modes of presentation with a unilateral location. The diagnosis of benign neurogenic tumours do not pose difficulty. However, malignant schwannoma should be considered when one encounters a cellular spindle cell lesion in sinonasal region.
Vaideeswar
Pradeep
P
Department of Pathology, Seth G S Medical College, Parel, Mumbai.
Madiwale
Chitra V
CV
Kathpal
Dimple
D
Prabhat
Daksha P
DP
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004844:Epistaxis / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015508:Nasal Obstruction / Q000473:pathology; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000473:pathology*; D009455:Neurofibroma / Q000473:pathology*; D010255:Paranasal Sinus Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies