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Pablo Pérez-Alonso, MD; Raquel Sánchez-Simón, MD; Félix Contreras, MD; Mercedes Patrón-Romero, MD
From the Department of Pathology, University Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain. Dr Pérez-Alonso is now with the Hospital Medina del Campo, Spain.

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2000;154:1265-1266.

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A 2-YEAR-OLD white boy had an 8-mm nodular lesion on his tongue since birth. The nodule was completely resected. No signs of recurrence were noted at 7-year follow-up. The specimen consisted of 2 mucous-covered fragments measuring 1 and 2 cm in diameter. Microscopically, there was a moderately well-circumscribed, 7 x 6 x 4 mm nonencapsulated, submucous nodular lesion (Figure 1). The central portion of the nodule was composed of thin, elongated cells with eosinophilic cytoplasm arranged haphazardly in slender fascicles or isolated. Small oval- to spindle-shaped undifferentiated cells with indistinct cytoplasm were interspersed among them (Figure 2). A decrease in the number of the undifferentiated cells was noted toward the periphery; the elongated cells became larger and disclosed a greater degree of cytoplasmic differentiation (Figure 3). Both types of cells showed bland . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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