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A 37-year-old man was admitted with neurological complaints after a traffic accident. Physical examination showed no signs of injury due to the accident. Magnetic resonance imaging of the neck revealed a well-demarcated lesion showing homogeneous contrast enhancement at the level of C1-2. The patient underwent elective surgery, and histopathologi-cal diagnosis of the surgical specimen was made as cervical schwannoma. His neurological complaints disappeared on the second postoperative day. No neurological deficit was observed at six-month follow-up. To our knowledge, there has been no literature report in which the diagnosis of cervical schwannoma was made during investigation of trauma-induced neurological symptoms.

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Constriction , Neurilemmoma , diagnosis , Spinal cord neoplasms , diagnosis , Cervical vertebrae , Pathologic , Etiology

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