Neck schwannoma diagnosed by core needle biopsy : a case report

Here we present a case of a 58 year old man referred to our hospital to undergo neck and thyroid ultrasonography (US) following palpable neck mass. US revealed a solid hypoechoic nodule in right thyroid lobe, and a solid lesion on the right laterocervical neck region with ultrasound suspicious features of neoplastic lymph node. In order to achieve a diagnosis of the neck mass and to get a proper evaluation of the thyroid nodule, we decided to perform a fine-needle aspiration (FNA) of both lesions. At cytopathologic examination the thyroid nodule appeared as benign, while cytologic sampling of the neck lesion was inadequate for a proper evaluation. Thus, we performed core needle biopsy (CNB) of the neck lesion like recently proposed for thyroid lesions; also, to definitively exclude malignancy of thyroid nodule, this also underwent CNB. Histologic report of CNB confirmed benign thyroid nodule, while the neck lesion revealed a proliferation of neuronal type consistent with schwannoma. The patient has been addressed to clinical and ultrasonographic follow-up. CNB appears as a safe and minimally-invasive approach to diagnose indeterminate neck masses and avoid unnecessary diagnostic surgery.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

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2015

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:18

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Journal of ultrasound - 18(2015), 4 vom: 09. Dez., Seite 407-10

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Englisch

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Nasrollah, N [VerfasserIn]
Trimboli, P [VerfasserIn]
Bianchi, D [VerfasserIn]
Taccogna, S [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 09.11.2015

Date Revised 24.03.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1007/s40477-014-0112-7

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NLM254458637