Posterior Pharyngeal Wall Schwannoma

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  • Varun Rai
  • Nikhil Arora
  • Vikas Malhotra
چکیده

Case report of a posterior pharyngeal wall schwannoma in a 23-year-old female. Hypopharyngeal schwannoma is rare entities and at the time of writing we could find only 10 other cases reported worldwide and this is the eleventh. Complete excision was done intraorally and there is no recurrence after 1 year.

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تاریخ انتشار 2015