Recurrent schwannoma of the tongue in a pediatric patient—report of a rare case with an updated review of literature

Singh, Anup; Kuzhikkali, Vaisakh; Kairo, Arvind Kumar

doi:10.1186/s43163-021-00101-0

The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology

Table 1 Pediatric lingual schwannomas—review of literature

From: Recurrent schwannoma of the tongue in a pediatric patient—report of a rare case with an updated review of literature

SN [ref]	Author	Year	Age (years)	Sex	Symptom	Size^a (mm)	Site	Surgical approach	FU (months)
1 [4]	Craig	1964	8	F	Painless mass	30	Posterior	Transoral	NA
2 [5]	Uj	1967	13	F	Painless mass	NA	NA	Transoral	NA
3 [6]	Barbosa et al.	1984	12	M	Painless mass	5	NA	Transoral	NA
4 [7]^b	Piatelli et al.	1984	18	F	Painless mass	NA	Anterior	Transoral	NA
5 [8]	Akimoto et al.	1987	14	M	Painless mass	10	Anterior	Transoral	NA
6 [8]	Siar et al.	1988	17	F	Painless mass	30	Posterior	Transoral	12
7 [8]	Siar et al.	1988	13	F	Painless mass	44	NA	Transoral	8
8 [3]	Pfeifle et al.	2001	18	M	Painless mass	20	Anterior	Transoral	NA
9 [8]	Bassichis et al.	2004	9	M	Snoring, breathing difficulty	23	Posterior	Transoral	60
10 [9]	Cinar et al.	2004	7	M	Painless mass	10	Anterior	Transoral	NA
11 [8]	Nakasato et al.	2005	9	F	Bleeding/ulceration	20	Postero-lateral	Transoral	17
12 [8]	Vafiadis et al.	2005	18	M	Painless mass	31	Anterior	Transoral	36
13 [10]	Enoz et al.	2006	7	M	Dysphagia/pain	25	Anterior	Transoral	60
14 [8]	Hsu et al.	2006	9	M	Painless mass	12	Anterior	Transoral	56
15 [8]	Hsu et al.	2006	15	F	Painless mass	12	Anterior	Transoral	136
16 [8]	Hsu et al.	2006	12	F	Painless mass	16	Anterior	Transoral	13
17 [8]	Pereira et al.	2008	12	M	Painless mass	15	Postero-lateral	Transoral	12
18 [8]	Gupta et al.	2009	18	F	Painless mass	10	Anterior	Transoral	NA
19 [8]	Karaca et al.	2010	13	F	Dysphagia	20	Postero-lateral	Transoral	12
20 [8]	Naidu et al.	2010	12	M	Paresthesia/bleed/ulceration	20	Antero-lateral	Transoral	3
21 [11]	Husain et al.	2011	10	F	Difficulty in mastication and phonation	50	Antero-lateral	Transoral	12
22 [8]	Lukšić et al.	2011	10	M	Painless mass	15	Postero-lateral	Transoral	60
23 [11]	Manna et al.	2012	15	M	Difficulty in mastication/swallowing	17	Posterior	Transoral	6
24 [11]	Bhola et al.	2014	14	F	Painless mass	15	Antero-lateral	Transoral	12
25 [8]	Moreno-Garcia et al.	2014	13	F	Painless mass	20	Anterior	Transoral	12
26 [12]	Franco et al.	2017	14	M	NA	15	NA	NA	NA
27 [13]	Fan et al.	2017	16	M	Painless mass	25	Posterior(tongue base)	Transoral	22
28 [14]^c	Amer et al.	2018	13	F	Painless mass with chewing difficulty	20	Anterior	Transoral	NA
29 [15]	Ahmad et al.	2020	14	F	Dysphagia	30	Posterior	Transoral	24
30 [16]	Thompson et al.	2020	12	F	Lingual mass	7	Anterior	Transoral	48
			12	F	Lingual mass	15	Anterior	Transoral	9
			18	M	Lingual mass	7	Anterior	Transoral	70
			17	F	Lingual mass	31	Anterior	Transoral	14
			17	M	Lingual mass	7	Anterior	Transoral	1
31.	Present case		13	F	Recurrent painless mass	20	Posterior	Transoral	36

SN serial number, M male, F female, mm millimeter, NA not available, FU follow-up
^aLargest dimension of the tumor
^bCase of malignant schwannoma)
^cThe patient with neurofibromatosis-2

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