• Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol · Jun 2012

    Case Reports

    A bilateral cervical swelling and it is not a malignancy.

    • Roland A Böckmann, Bernd Lethaus, Patrick Schön, Eckhard Mielke, Peter Kessler, and Ingo Stricker.
    • Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht University, The Netherlands, Germany. roland.boeckmann@gmx.net
    • Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol. 2012 Jun 1; 113 (6): e19-21.

    BackgroundThis case report is about a patient with 2 synchronous bilateral cervical schwannomas.Patients And MethodsA 59-year-old white man presented a 6-month history of painless bilateral cervical swelling. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed 2 tumors in the carotid sheath. Both tumors, which derived from the cervical sympathetic chain, were surgically removed.ResultsHistopathologically, both tumors were diagnosed as schwannomas.ConclusionsCommonly, a bilateral cervical swelling is not caused by 2 schwannomas. It is unusual for 2 schwannomas to appear in a patient synchronously without any evidence of neurofibromatosis or schwannomatosis. Differential diagnosis of a bilateral cervical swelling includes malignancy, carotid body tumor, and chronic infection.Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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