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Schwannoma is a benign neurogenic tumor of slow growing. Fourty-five percent of cases occur in head and neck region; its origin on nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses is not common, about 4%. We report the case of a nasal septum schwannoma in a male 68 year-old patient, with a tumor of eight years of evolution with clinical signs of nasal obstruction and rhinorrhea. Extirpation by lateral rhynotomy was done successfully. After three years of follow-up patient does not have recurrence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The tumoral processes that ore presented in the maxillary and jaw, in an excessive growth, they con deform the patient's face considerably. When being eliminated the lesions or tumors are presented dysfunctions in functions as the deglution, mastication and phonation like: to present speaks hipernasal, filtration of liquid to the nasal cavity or inclusive to the cavity it would orbit depending on the size of the tumor and the cavity remainder for what is necessary and indispensable the placement from a surgical choke to this type of patient. The quality of the patients' life with maxillofacial protesis altered, they are damaged psychologically, social and emotionally when having lost part of its face and finally its expectations are very high to feel normal and socially accepted of the people again. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]