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J Neurosurg Sci
; 41(3): 293-7, 1997 Sep.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-9444583
ABSTRACT
A 66-year-old man presented to our Department with trigeminal neuralgia of the third division of the right trigeminal nerve. He also complained of some difficulty in mastication because of a tumour mass in the right lower jaw. A brain CT scan, X-rays of the lower jaw and viscerocranium CT scan revealed a malignant schwannoma of the right Gasserian ganglion involving simultaneously the distal end of the right mandibular nerve. The patient was operated on and has undergone a course of external irradiation. Seven years later, he is living a normal life. The value of the preoperative diagnosis of this extremely rare pathology is discussed because it seems that this tumour is radiosensitive.