Solitary nasal schwannoma clinically presenting as an angiofibroma of the nasopharynx.
Benign schwannomas of the nasal cavity are rare. When they do occur, their clinical presentation is variable, and some are fairly vascular. We report the case of a 17-year-old boy who presented with epistaxis associated with a unilateral nasal mass that extended into the nasopharynx. The tumor was removed via a transpalatal approach. In most such cases, a clinical diagnosis of angiofibroma is made. In this case, however, histopathologic examination identified the lesion as a schwannoma.
Gupta
S C
SC
Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Moti Lal Nehru Medical College, Allahabad-211001, UP, India. sachkachin@yahoo.com
Sachin
Jain
J
Savyasachi
Saxena
S
Ritesh
Jaiswal
J
Neha
Garg
G
Singh
Himanshu P
HP
D000293:Adolescent; D018322:Angiofibroma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004844:Epistaxis / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015508:Nasal Obstruction / Q000175:diagnosis; D009300:Nasal Septum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D009669:Nose Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed