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Unusual presentation of more common disease/injury
CASE REPORT
Secretory cervical schwannoma: first of its kind
Summary
Schwannomas arising from cervical sympathetic chain are rare benign neoplasms which are slow growing, usually asymptomatic, biochemically non-secretory and functionally inactive tumours. We present a case of secretory schwannoma arising from the cervical sympathetic chain, causing hypertension and associated with raised urinary catecholamine degradation by-products. Transcervical excision of the tumour was followed by normalisation of blood pressure and urinary vanillylmandelic acid levels and pathologically the tumour was proved to be a schwannoma.
- ear, nose and throat
- head and neck cancer
- head and neck surgery