Subfrontal Schwannoma: Case report and review of literature

We present the case of a 46 year old female that presented with right tinnitus, dizziness and bifrontal headache, progressive, starting two years before. Imaging studies reveals an incidentally neoplastic extraaxial homogeneous appearance tumor on the right anterior skull base. She undewernt surgical treatment with total resection of the tumor by a bicoronal approach. The histopathological study reported schwannoma.Although attributte the origin of schwannomas from the the olfactory nerve is near impossible, once they do not have Schwann cells, intracranial supratentorial schwannomas are mainly located in the anterior skull base.

Source: World Neurosurgery - October 17, 2017 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Vladimir Figueroa- Ángel, Carlos Alberto Rodríguez-Aceves, Willem G. Calderon-Miranda, Nidia Escobar-Hernandez, Andrei F. Joaquim, Neurosurgeon; Luis R Moscote Tags: Case Report Source Type: research