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Case 14

View the following images and select the correct diagnosis from the list of differentials given below.

Non-Gyne Case 14 -- "It ain't no smyelin' matter"

          From the Cytopathology files of the BC Cancer Agency
          Submitted by: Amanda Reith, BSc; edited by Brenda Smith, BSc and Tom Thomson, MD

FNAB of a painless parotid lesion with a recent rapid increase in size, present for approximately eight years in a 40 year old man.

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Select one of the following:

    A) Pleomorphic Adenoma

    B) Schwannoma

    C) Nodular fasciitis

    D) Myoepithelioma


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