J Korean Assoc Maxillofac Plast Reconstr Surg.
2003 Jan;25(1):79-82.
Case report of Neurofibroma
- Affiliations
-
- 1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Inje University, Korea. green2875@dreamwiz.com
Abstract
- Neurofibroma is benign neurogenic tumor originated from nerve tissue-Schwann cell, fibroblast, perineural cell. They have no sexual predirection and generally no symptom. Neurofibroma is classified to solitary type and multiple type and is rare in oral resion. They located in soft tissue of tongue, lip, palate and oral mucosa in form of sessile and pedunculated mass and are rare intraosseous region. In solitary type, complete excision is the choice of treatment due to their rare recurrence rate. In multiple type, the same is choice of treatment but bas some difficulty of plastic problem, bleeding.
