Inferior turbinate schwannoma: report of a case.
Schwannomas of the nasal cavity are extremely rare. We evaluated a 42-year-old woman who presented with a 4-year history of slowly progressive nasal obstruction. The cause of the obstruction was identified as a schwannoma in the left inferior turbinate. The tumor was completely excised, and no sign of recurrence was evident at the 1-year follow-up. To the best of our knowledge, this is only the third case of a schwannoma originating in the inferior nasal turbinate that has been reported in the English-language literature. We review the clinical and pathologic features of this case.
Khnifies
Riad
R
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, B'nai Zion Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel School of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Fradis
Milo
M
Brodsky
Alexander
A
Bajar
Jacob
J
Luntz
Michal
M
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D015508:Nasal Obstruction / Q000209:etiology; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D009669:Nose Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014420:Turbinates / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery