Intracranial subfrontal schwannoma treated with surgery and 3D conformal radiotherapy.
Subfrontal schwannoma not arising from the cranial nerves are rare tumors. A 19-year-old man presented with a large subfrontal extra-axial enhancing mass with a preoperative diagnosis of skull base meningioma. A subtotal resection of the tumor mass was carried out. Microscopic examination revealed it to be a schwannoma. The residual tumor was treated with fractionated three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3D CRT). The rationale of treating with radiotherapy in such cases is analyzed.
Department of Radiation Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Parel, Mumbai - 400 012, India.
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D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005625:Frontal Lobe; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery*; D020266:Radiotherapy, Conformal