Tamiolakis P, Kalyvas D, Arvanitidou I, Vlachaki A, Tosios KI, Sklavounou-Andrikopoulou A. Palatal schwannoma in a young female patient: report of a case and review of the literature.
Eur Arch Paediatr Dent 2018;
19:279-285. [PMID:
29882201 DOI:
10.1007/s40368-018-0349-5]
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Abstract
BACKGROUND
A few cases of oral schwannomas in paediatric patients have appeared in the literature so far; however, there are no studies focusing solely on paediatric oral schwannomas. The aim of this study is to report a case of palatal schwannoma in a young female patient and review the pertinent literature on oral schwannomas in paediatric patients.
CASE REPORT
A 12-year-old girl presented with a growing swelling of 2 weeks duration on the hard palate. With a provisional diagnosis of a salivary gland neoplasm an incisional biopsy was performed under local anesthesia and the histologic examination disclosed an Antony A type schwannoma.
TREATMENT
Complete surgical resection of the lesion was performed under local anaesthesia through a palatal mucosa incision and paraffin gauze was sutured on the surgical area for protection during secondary healing. The bone underlying the tumor was normal. The postoperative period was uneventful and 2 weeks after excision the gauze were removed.
FOLLOW-UP
There have been no signs of recurrence during a 18-month follow up period.
CONCLUSION
A palatal swelling in a child or adolescent may represent a neoplasm, such as a schwannoma and requires careful clinical and radiographic evaluation of the dentition.
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