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Case Reports
. 2021 Jan 18;193(3):E98.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.201039.

Schwannoma of the tongue

Keiichi Ohta  1 , Hitoshi Yoshimura  2
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Case Reports

Schwannoma of the tongue

Keiichi Ohta et al. CMAJ. .
No abstract available

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Competing interests: None declared.

Figures

Figure 1:
Figure 1:
(A) Photograph of a well-circumscribed, elastic 14 × 9 mm mass on the left lateral border of the tongue in a 17-year-old male with schwannoma. (B) Magnetic resonance imaging scan showing a well-defined lesion that was hyperintense on T2-weighted imaging (arrow). (C) Histopathological examination with hematoxylin and eosin staining showing hypercellular spindle cell regions (arrows) in a palisading arrangement (Antoni A) (magnification × 100).
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