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PATHOLOGIC QUIZ CASE 1
A. Parke Avery, MD, Morgantown, WVaA 67-year-old white woman, in good health, noted a slowly enlarging "mass" in her right upper cervical region during the past two years. The mass was nonpainful, and no dysphagia or hoarseness was present.The mass was located below the angle of the right mandible and measured 4.0 × 2.0 cm. It was nontender, movable at the inferior border, and was suspected to be contiguous with the parotid gland. Inspection of the oral cavity, nasopharynx, hypopharynx, and larynx was normal. A sialogram showed no definite pathological changes. The mass was removed surgically (Fig 1 and 2).
PATHOLOGIC QUIZ CASE 2
Jerome Kosoy, MD, Galveston, TexA 71-year-old white man complained of a mass on the left side of his neck for about two weeks. Eighteen years previously he had undergone a total laryngectomy and a left radical neck dissection for