Penn Head and Neck Cancer oncologists and otorhinolaryngologists have expertise in diagnosing and treating all types of benign and malignant skull base tumors. Skull base tumors we treat include:
Benign skull base tumors:
- Acoustic neuroma (vestibular schwannoma)
- Craniopharyngioma
- Glomus tumors (also called paraganglioma, glomus tympanicum, glomus jugulare, and carotid body tumor)
- Meningioma
- Neuroma (trigeminal neuroma, vagal schwannoma)
- Paraganglioma
- Pituitary tumor (usually benign), most are pituitary adenoma
- Inverted papillomas
- Tumors in the soft tissues and bones of the head, upper face and sinuses
Malignant skull base tumors:
- Carcinomas:
- adenoid cystic carcinoma
- adenocarcinoma carcinoma
- basal cell carcinoma
- sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma (SNUC)
- sinonasal neuroendocrine carcinoma (SNEC)
- squamous cell carcinoma
- Chordoma
- Craniopharyngioma
- Esthesioneuroblastoma (olfactory neuroblastoma)
- Hemangiopericytomas
- Meningioma
- Mucosal melanoma
- Paraganglioma
- Primary CNS Lymphoma (PCNSL)
- Sarcomas
- chondrosarcoma
- rhabdomyosarcoma
- osteosarcoma
- Soft tissue sarcomas
- Skull base carcinoid tumor (neuroendocrine carcinoma)