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Article: Pathologic Quiz Case: An 86-Year-Old Man With a Painless Right Tongue Mass
- Article from:
- Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
- Article date:
- February 1, 2005
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CopyrightCopyright College of American Pathologists Feb 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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An 86-year-old man with a significant history of smoking and alcohol intake presented with a painless right tongue mass that had been present for an unknown period of time. Physical examination revealed a pedunculated polypoid mass measuring 0.5 cm in greatest dimension involving the midanterior two thirds of the right tongue blade. The rest of the physical examination and the laboratory studies were unremarkable. The patient subsequently underwent an outpatient excisional biopsy of the tongue mass.
Grossly, the specimen consisted of an irregular, round fragment of tan to light yellow rubbery soft tissue measuring 0.3 × 0.2 × 0.2 cm. Histologically, the specimen was a well-circumscribed ...