Volume 15, Number 1, March 2003
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Hideo Kurokawa,1 Keiko Miura,1 Shinobu Matsumoto,1 Takashi Nakamura,1 Tomoyuki Murata,1 Min Zhang,2 Hiroshi Fukuyama,2 Tetsu Takahashi1
1Second Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Kyushu Dental College, Kitakyushu, Japan
2Department of Oral Pathology, Kyushu Dental College, Kitakyushu, Japan
Abstract
A rare case of schwannoma in a 31-year-old man derived from the cervical sympathetic nerve is reported. The tumour was composed mostly of Antoni A tissue occurring in the left parapharyngeal space. The tumour was completely removed through an external incision. The postoperative course was uneventful.
Key words: Neurilemmoma, Pharyngeal neoplasms, Case report
Asian J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2003;15:60-63.
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