Anahtar sözcükler: Nörofibromatozis 2, baş ve boyun tümörleri, tanı, klinik protokolleri Abstract Aim. Schwannomas (neurilemmomas) are solitary rare neurogenic tumors that originae from the sheath of peripheral, cranial or autonomic nerve cells. Schwannomas can be seen everywhere in he body but more-often they are located at the head and neck region. They grow slowly clinically and frequently manifest themselves as asymptomatic masses in the neck. Method. In this retrospectively study, six patients who suffer from benign schwannoma have been histopathologically diagnosed and operated in our clinic between 2004 and 2008. Results. Head and neck mass of these six patients were located at the laterocervical region in two patients.and and at the parapharyngeal region, tympanium, premaxillary region and hard palate in the remaining four patients respectively. The neural origins of the masses were cervical sympathetic chain in one, inferior orbital nerve in one and nnervus tympanicus in another. The functions of the nerves were fully preserved during surgical excision of these six cases via conservative approaches, thus no nerve grafting was needed. Only in one case facial paresthesia that originated from the infraorbital nerve developed postoperatively. one of the mass which was Conclusion. In this study the diagnosis, pathological characteristics, treatment and prognosis of head and neck schwannoma is discussed.
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