Schwannoma of the Base of the Tongue: A Case Report of a Rare Disease and Review of Literatures

Table 1

Patients and tumor characteristics of tongue schwannomas.

Author	Year	Gender	Age	Size (cm)	Site	Presentation	Surgical approach
Mercantini and Mopper [13]	1959	M	22	1	Anterior	Intermittent pain	Transoral
Cameron [14]	1959	M	25	1.5	Anterior	Lump	Transoral
Chadwick [15]	1964	F	20	2.2	Posterior	Lump	Transoral
Craig [16]	1964	F	8	3	Posterior	Lump	Transoral
Pantazopoulos [17]	1965	F	45	4.5	Posterior	Dysphasia/change in voice	Transoral
Chamber [18]	1965	M	29	5	Posterior	Throat discomfort	Transoral
Fifer et al. [19]	1966	F	28	3	Anterior	Lump	Transoral
Hatziotis and Aspride [20]	1967	M	25	Hazelnut	Posterior	Lump	Transoral
Oles and Werthemier [21]	1967	M	52	1	Anterior	Lump	Transoral
Paliwal et al. [22]	1967	M	32	2.5	Anterior	Lump	Transoral
Crawford et al. [23]	1968	M	23	0.5	Anterior	Lump	Transoral
	1968	M	24	1	Anterior	Lump	Transoral
Das Gupta et al. [24]	1969	F	21	5	Posterior	Pain	Transoral
Bitici [25]	1969	M	40	2.5	Anterior	Slight discomfort	Transoral
Sinha and Samuel [26]	1971	M	23	1.5	Posterior	Dysphagia	Transoral
Mosadomi [27]	1975	M	19	3	Anterior	Painful mass	Transoral
Swangsilpa et al. [28]	1976	M	26	3	Anterior	Lump	Transoral
Sharan and Akhtar [29]	1978	F	30	1.5	Anterior	Change in voice	Transoral
Akimoto et al. [30]	1987	M	15	1	Anterior	Lump	Transoral
Sira et al. [31]	1988	F	18	3	Posterior	Lump	Transoral
Flickinger et al. [32]	1989	F	28	3	Anterior	Lump	Transoral
Talmi et al. [33]	1991	F	75	1	Posterior	Lump	Transoral
Gallesio and Berrone [34]	1992	F	21	1.9	Anterior/base	Dysphonia/paresthesia/chewing difficulty	Transoral
Lopez and Ballistin [10]	1993	M	24	0.6	Anterior	Lump	Transoral
Haring [35]	1994	F	49	2	Anterior	Lump	Transoral
Nakayama et al. [36]	1996	F	40	5.5	Anterior	Lump	Transoral
Dreher et al. [37]	1997	F	31	3	Base	Dysphagia	Transoral
Spandow et al. [38]	1999	M	37	7.9	Posterior	Throat discomfort	Transoral
de Bree et al. [2]	2000	F	24	5	Posterolateral/base	Lump	Submandibular
Pfeifle et al. [39]	2001	F	30	0.3	Anterior	Lump	Transoral
Cinar et al. [40]	2004	M	7	1	Anterior	Lump	Transoral
Bassichis and McMlay [41]	2004	M	9	2.3	Posterior/base	Snoring	Transoral
Nakasato et al. [42]	2005	F	9	2	Posterolateral/base	Bleeding/ulceration	Transoral
Hwang et al. [43]	2005	M	23	2.8	Anterior	Lump	Transoral
Lopez-Jornet and Bermejo-Fenoll [44]	2005	M	39	0.8	Posterolateral/base	Lump	Transoral
Vafiadis et al. [45]	2005	M	18	3.1	Anterior	Lump	Transoral
Bansal et al. [46]	2005	M	26	4	Posterolateral/ventral	Paresthesia/dysphonia	Transoral
Hsu et al. [7]	2006	M	20	5	Posterior/base	Bleeding	Transoral
Ying et al. [47]	2006	F	26	4	Posterior/base	Dysphagia/otalgia	Transoral
Enoz et al. [48]	2006	M	7	2.5	Anterior/base	Dysphagia/pain	Transoral
Mehrzad et al. [49]	2006	M	49	2.2	Posterior/ventral	Pain	CO2-transoral
Batra et al. [50]	2007	M	30	3	Posterolateral/base	Dysphagia, dyspnea, abscess	Transoral
Ballesteros et al. [51]	2007	F	31	2	Base	Pain	CO2-transoral
Sawhney et al. [52]	2008	F	37	4.6	Posterolateral/base	Dysphagia/snoring	Submandibular
Sethi et al. [53]	2008	F	28	1	Anterolateral/ventral	Lump	Transoral
Pereira et al. [54]	2008	M	12	1.5	Posterolateral/ventral	Lump
Cohen and Wang [55]	2009	M	77	0.7	Posterolateral/ventral	Lump	Transoral
Gupta et al. [56]	2009	F	18	1	Anterior/ventral	Lump	Transoral
Mardanpour and Rahbar [57]	2009	M	18	2	Posterior	Dysphagia/change of voice	Transoral
Karaca et al. [58]	2010	F	13	2	Posterolateral/ventral	Dysphagia	Transoral
Cigdem et al. [59]	2010	M	13	2	Anterior/ventral	Lump	Transoral
Jeffcoat et al. [60]	2010	M	68	1.5	Lateral	Lump	Transoral
Naidu and Sinha [61]	2010	M	12	2	Anterolateral/base	Paresthesia/bleeding/ulceration	Transoral
Lukšić et al. [62]	2011	M	10	1.5	Posterolateral/ventral	Lump	Transoral
Batra et al. [63]	2011	F	38	4.2	Posterior/ventral	Dysphagia/change of voice	Transoral
Nisa et al. [64]	2011	F	38	8.5	Posterolateral/ventral	Dysphagia/dysphonia/dyspnea	Transoral
Monga et al. [65]	2013	M	20	2	Posterolateral/base	Lump	Transoral
Lira et al. [5]	2013	F	26	2.5	Posterior/ventral	Cervical pain	Transoral
Erkul et al. [66]	2013	M	21	3	Posterolateral/ventral	Chewing difficulty	Transoral
Jayaraman et al. [67]	2013	F	25	3	Anterolate	Lump	Transoral
George et al. [4]	2014	M	26	4	Posterolateral/base	Dysphagia/dysphonia	Transoral
Bhola et al. [11]	2014	F	14	1.5	Anterolateral/ventral	Lump	Transoral
Moreno-Garcíaet al. [68]	2014	F	13	2	Anterior/ventral	Lump	Lipsplit/mandibulotomy
Nibhoria et al. [69]	2015	F	18	1.5	Posterolateral/ventral	Lump	Transoral
Gopalakrishnanetal. [70]	2016	M	32	3	Posterolateral/ventral	Dysphagia	Transoral
Sharma and Rai [71]	2016	F	20	4	Posterolateral/ventral	Dysphagia/dysphonia	Transoral
Kavčič and Božič [72]	2016	F	20	1.3	Anterolateral/ventral/tip	Lump	Transoral
Lee et al. [73]	2016	M	28	4	Posterior/ventral	Lump	Transoral
Zain et al. [12]	2016	F	24	Not clear	Posterior	Lump	Transoral
Steffi Sharmaetal.	2018	F	20	4	Posterior	Lump	Transoral
Current	2019	M	28	4	Posterior	Lump	Transoral