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ENT case 4. Sinonasal mass from a middle-aged patient
Diffusely positive for both squamous and neuroendocrine markers. SMARCB1-deficient sinonasal carcinoma •Rare, high grade aggressive...
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Bone and soft tissue Case 4. Lytic bone lesion from a pediatric patient.
•Diagnosis: Langerhans cell histiocytosis •Majority of cases have MAPK pathway gene mutations, with BRAFp.V600E being the most prevalent.
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Bone and soft tissue Case 3. Painful knee mass from a middle-aged patient.
•Diagnosis: epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) •Great variability in clinical behavior and prognosis, occurs in patients of wide age...
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Bone and soft tissue Case 2. Skull base mass from a 5 YO patient.
•Focal positivity for cytokeratin, brachyury, S100, SMA •INI1/SMARCB1 loss on immunohistochemical stain as well as SMARCB1 deletion on...
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Bone and soft tissue case 1. Skull base mass.
•Diagnosis: chordoma •Clinical: most commonly presents as lytic, destructive bone lesion in the axial skeleton: base of the skull, spine,...
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ENT case 3. Thyroid mass.
•Diagnosis: high grade follicular cell-derived non-anaplastic thyroid carcinoma, aka: poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma •In the...
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ENT case 2: buccal mucosa mass from a 19 YO patient
•Diagnosis: extraosseous/peripheral ameloblastoma •10% of all amelob;astomas, occur in wide age range 9-92 •Molecular changes: similar to...
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ENT Case 1
•Diagnosis: Medullary carcinoma of thyroid •2% of thyroid malignancies, and 8% of thyroid cancer-related deaths •25% of MTCs are...
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