title: Three cases of head and neck schwannomas: varied clinical presentation.
abstract: Schwannomas are benign tumors. A series of three unusual cases involving the head and neck region at the Department of ENT, Hospital Ipoh from July 2004 to June 2005 is presented. The first case was a pedunculated schwannoma of the tongue base. The second was a schwannoma of the cervical sympathetic chain who developed a transient Horner's Syndrome upon fine needle aspiration cytology. The third case was a bilobed cervical vagal schwannoma which developed immediate vocal cord palsy postoperatively which was evident at six months follow-up. All tumors were removed surgically.
authors.affiliation: Department of ENT, Hospital Ipoh, Jalan Hospital, 30990, Ipoh, Perak.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Philip
authors.forename: A W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Chong
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rosalind
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gurdeep
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kalyani
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery