A Case of Multiple Schwannoma of Facial nerve in Parotid Gland

Goh, Eui-Kyung; Lee, Ji-Won; Moon, Young-II; Roh, Hwan-Jung

doi:10.35420/jcohns.1996.7.2.410

J Clin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1996; 7(2):410-414

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

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35420/jcohns.1996.7.2.410

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A Case of Multiple Schwannoma of Facial nerve in Parotid Gland

Eui-Kyung Goh¹, Ji-Won Lee¹, Young-II Moon¹, Hwan-Jung Roh¹

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¹부산대학교 의과대학 이비인후과학교실

¹Department of Otolaryngology, College of Medicine, Pusan National University

© Copyright 1996 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.

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ABSTRACT

Schwannoma of facial nerve presenting as a asymptomatic parotid mass is rare in head and neck field. Most of reported Schwannoma from facial nerve were solitary, well-encapsulated in the character.

A 66 year-old famale who complained palpable right infraauricular and nontender mass got parotidectomy as a parotid tumor according to preoperative CT findings. This tumor mass occurred multiply along with peripheral branches of the facial nerve and the pathologic result was Schwannoma.. Even though there have been several reports of extratemporal facial nerve Schwannoma, none of these reports was multiple type. So authors report a case of multiple Schwannoma of extratemporal facial nerve with brief review of literature.

Keywords: Facial nerve; Schwannoma

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