Volume 20, Number 3, September 2008
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Takayoshi Tobita,1 Hisazumi Ikeda,1 Shuichi Fujita,2 Mihoko Ikeda,1 Seigo Ohba,1 Kiyotaka Shibahara,1 Masataka Uehara,1 Nobutaka Tajima,1 Tohru Ikeda,2 Izumi Asahina1
1Department of Regenerative Oral Surgery, Unit of Translational Medicine, and 2Department of Oral Pathology and Bone Metabolism, Unit of Basic Medical Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan
Abstract
Ancient schwannoma is a rare benign tumour, and the number of ancient schwannomas occurring in the oral cavity is very small. This report describes a patient with an ancient schwannoma in the buccal region, which was surgically removed twice over 23 years. The patient is being followed up on an outpatient basis and no further recurrence has been observed thus far.
Key words: Mouth, Neurilemmoma, Recurrence
Asian J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2008;20:139-143.
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