MANDIBULAR SWING APPROACH FOR A RECURRENT PARA PHARYNGEAL SPACE TUMOR ? REPORT OF A CASE.

Para pharyngeal space tumors , most of them benign, account forsome 0.5% of tumors of head & neck. The importance of thesetumors lie mainly in two aspects- on the one hand, the difficultyof early diagnosis & on the other hand the extremecomplications of performing surgery in Para pharyngeal region.This article discusses a clinical case of recurrent parapharyngeal tumor. A 32 yr old man presented with a recurrentleft side neck swelling,4cm in diameter,which was subsequentlyconfirmed as schwannoma by FNAC. Para pharyngeal tumorwas successfully removed by mandibular swing approach &excision technique. His post operative course was uneventful &the pre operative clinical symptoms such as dysphagia &dysphnea completely resolved after surgery.