Case Report

Schwannoma of the Tongue in a Paediatric Patient: A Case Report and 20-Year Review

Table 1

Demographic characteristic of cases reported in past 20 years’ literature.

Name of author(s) and year of publicationAge (years)/sexSite of occurrenceSurgical approachFollow-up
(in months)

López and Ballestin, 1993 [12]M/24TongueTransoral
M/33TongueTransoral

de Bree et al., 2000 [13]F/24Base of tongueSubmandibular

Pfeifle et al., 2001 [5]M/18TongueTransoral
F/30TongueTransoral

Mevio et al., 2003 [14]F/35TongueTran oral

Bassichis and McClay, 2004 [15]M/9Base of tongueTransoral60

Cinar et al., 2004 [10]M/7TongueTransoral

Nakasato et al., 2005 [16]F/9Base of tongueTransoral17

Hwang et al., 2005 [2]M/23TongueTransoral6

Vafiadis et al., 2005 [17]M/18TongueTransoral36

Ying et al., 2006 [18]F/26Base of tongueTransoral

Hsu et al., 2006 [19]M/20Base of tongueTransoral3
M/45TongueTransoral203
F/12TongueTransoral13
M/38TongueTransoral135
F/15TongueTransoral136
M/25TongueTransoral28
F/32Base of tongueTransoral63
M/9TongueTransoral56
F/39Base of tongueTranshyoid23
F/39TongueTransoral137

Mehrzad et al., 2006 [20]M/49Base of tongueTransoral (CO2 LASER)3

Enoz et al., 2006 [11]M/7TongueTransoral60

Patnayak et al., 2007 [21]F/45TongueTransoral

Ballesteros et al., 2007 [22]F/31Base of tongueTransoral (CO2 LASER)

Batra et al., 2007 [23]M/33Base of tongueTransoral6
M/33Base of tongueTransoral9

Sawhney et al., 2008 [6]F/37Base of tongueSubmandibular

Ferreti Bonan et al., 2008 [24]F/46TongueTransoral12

Pereira et al., 2008 [25]M/12TongueTransoral12

Cohen and Wang, 2009 [7]M/77TongueTransoral
F/19TongueTransoral

Gupta et al., 2009 [26]F/18TongueTransoral

Karaca et al., 2010 [27]F/13TongueTransoral12

Naidu and Sinha 2010 [28]M/12TongueTransoral3

Lukšić et al., 2011 [29]M/10TongueTransoral60

Nisa et al., 2011 [30]F/38TongueTransoral

Husain et al., 2011 [31]F/10TongueTransoral12

Jeffcoat et al., 2010 [32]M/68TongueTransoral

Catalfamo et al., 2011 [33]M/28TongueTransoral

Manna et al., 2012 [34]M/15TongueTransoral

Lira et al., 2013 [35]F/28TongueTransoral

Moreno-García et al., 2014 [36]F/13TongueTransoral12