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case_images: Asymptomatic nodule over right anterolateral side of tongue.
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case_images: A 14-year-old girl presented to the department of oral and maxillofacial surgery for evaluation of a slow growing, occasionally painful nodule on right anterolateral side of tongue first noted 2 years back (Figure 1).
case_images: Encapsulated mass.
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case_images: The mass was submucosal and once a mucosal flap was raised, the tumor was readily shelled out using blunt dissection (Figures 2, 3, and 4).
case_images: Complete excision.
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case_images: The mass was submucosal and once a mucosal flap was raised, the tumor was readily shelled out using blunt dissection (Figures 2, 3, and 4).
case_images: Excised mass.
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case_images: The mass was submucosal and once a mucosal flap was raised, the tumor was readily shelled out using blunt dissection (Figures 2, 3, and 4).
case_images: Spindle-shape neural cells arranged in Antoni A pattern with Verocay bodies.
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case_images: Histopathological examination of the surgical specimen revealed a schwannoma, mainly composed of Antoni A pattern with Verocay bodies and Antoni B (Figure 5).