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Pedunculated Oropharyngeal Schwannoma Arising from Posterior Tonsillar Pillar


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1 Department of ENT, KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India
 

Schwannoma are benign tumours which arise from Schwann cells. Most commonly occur in the paraharyngeal space in the neck. Peduncalted oropharyngeal schwannoma are very rare and to the best of our knowledge only 5 cases of peduncaleted oropharyngeal tumours have reported in literature.

We present 52 year old male with peduncaleted oropharyngeal schwannoma which was arising from superior part of posterior tonsillar pillar. This site of origin for a pedunculated schwannoma has never been reported before.


Keywords

Oropharynx, Schwannoma, Posterior Tonsillar Pillar, Pedunculated, Verocay Bodies.
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Authors

Ameya Bihani
Department of ENT, KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India
Yogesh Dokhe
Department of ENT, KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India
Priyanka Hardikar
Department of ENT, KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India
Omkar Halwai
Department of ENT, KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India
Arpit Sharma
Department of ENT, KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India
Jyoti Dabholkar
Department of ENT, KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India

Abstract


Schwannoma are benign tumours which arise from Schwann cells. Most commonly occur in the paraharyngeal space in the neck. Peduncalted oropharyngeal schwannoma are very rare and to the best of our knowledge only 5 cases of peduncaleted oropharyngeal tumours have reported in literature.

We present 52 year old male with peduncaleted oropharyngeal schwannoma which was arising from superior part of posterior tonsillar pillar. This site of origin for a pedunculated schwannoma has never been reported before.


Keywords


Oropharynx, Schwannoma, Posterior Tonsillar Pillar, Pedunculated, Verocay Bodies.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18311/ijmds%2F2015%2F79859