A Case of Schwannoma of the Tongue Tip

Park, Hong-Seok; Park, Bum-Seok; Myung, Nam-Sook; Koo, Soo-Kweon

doi:10.35420/jcohns.2009.20.2.268

J Clin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2009; 20(2):268-271

pISSN: 1225-0244, eISSN: 2713-833X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35420/jcohns.2009.20.2.268

증례

혀 끝에 발생한 신경초종 1예

박홍석¹, 박범석¹, 명남숙¹, 구수권¹^,^*

A Case of Schwannoma of the Tongue Tip

Hong-Seok Park¹, Bum-Seok Park¹, Nam-Sook Myung¹, Soo-Kweon Koo¹^,^*

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¹부산성모병원 이비인후과

¹Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Busan St. Mary’ Medical Center, Busan, Korea

^*교신저자: 구수권, 608-838 부산광역시 남구 용호동 538-41 부산성모병원 이비인후과 전화:(051) 933-7114·전송:(051) 956-1956 E-mail:chief123@chollian.net

© Copyright 2009 The Busan, Ulsan, Gyeoungnam Branch of Korean Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Received: May 13, 2009; Revised: Jun 05, 2009; Accepted: Aug 27, 2009

Published Online: May 31, 2020

ABSTRACT

Schwannoma is a benign, solitary tumor which may arise from the nerve sheath of the peripheral, sympathetic and cranial nerves. It is a characteristically slowly growing, well-encapsulated mass. About 25-45% of schwannoma occurs in the head and neck region with which the acoustic nerve is most frequently involved. Schwannoma arising in the tongue is extremely uncommon. In this study, we have experienced a case of schwannoma arising from tongue tip in 16-year-old male. We report this case with a literature review. (J Clinical Otolaryngol 2009;20:268-271)

Keywords: 신경초종; 혀

Keywords: Schwannoma; Tongue