WSI23-88: Practical Cases – Head & Neck Pathology

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Request type Study
Subspecialty Head and Neck
Set Current Concepts in Head and Neck and Endocrine Pathology
Topic Practical Cases – Head & Neck Pathology
Presenter Faquin, William C.,MD, PhD
Date and time Friday, June 9, 2023 5:00 AM


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Case Clinical history Requester Diagnosis
Case Clinical history Requester Diagnosis

Case 1


20 year old female with floor of mouth tumor. Kx601 Adamantinoma-like Ewing's sarcoma. (FISH is + for EWSR fusion)

Case 2


67 year old male with left maxillary sinus cancer. Kx601 NUT carcinoma

Case 3


74 year old female with chronic otitis media and middle ear mass. Kx601 Phosphaturic mesenchymal tumor.

Case 4


38 year old woman with mass adjacent to/adherent to thyroid gland. Kx601 Parathyroid carcinoma (1.2 cm) • with tumor infiltrating thyroid gland and suspicious for lymphovascular invasion.

Case 5


70 year old female with a mass arising in the sinonasal tract. Kx601 SWI/SNF complex-deficient sinonasal carcinoma with SMARCB1 loss.

Case 6


55 year old man with a one year of nasal congestion • epistaxis and drainage • and a large mass in the right nasal cavity Kx601 HPV-related multiphenotypic sinonasal carcinoma • previously called HPV-related adenoic cystic-like carcinoma

Case 7


82 year old male with left parotid mass. Kx601 Metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

Case 8


33 year old diagnosed with papillary thyroid carcinoma in 2012. Lesion was a 2.0 cm in the right lobe with minimal extrathyroidal extension and two negative lymph nodes (currently would have been classified as pT1b N0a -- then pT3 N0). All was fine until July 2020 noted to have LUL lung lesion excised and RUL lung lesion excised Aug 2020. Jan 2021 • noted to have two brain lesions (L frontoparietal and R occipital). Tumor noted to have CCDC149-ALK fusion. Subsequently treated with SAS (stereotactic ablative surgery -- gamma knife). Now alectinib. Kx601 Kinase fusion-related thyroid carcinoma (for now • associated with classical papillary thyroid carcinoma). Alectinib targets ALK (anaplastic lymphoma kinase)

Case 9


21 year old man with presents with changes in phonation and a multifocal thyroid masses Kx601 fusion kinase-related papillary thyroid carcinoma • multifocal (up to 2.9 cm) with extrathyroidal extension and neural involvement and extensive lateral neck mets. Grossly involving recurrent laryngeal nerve and ligament of Berry (pT4a). Positive for NCOA-RET fusion; selpercatinib (RET inhibitor) pre and post-operatively