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Dr. H. Daniel Clark (Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery): A 32-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of a mandibular sarcoma. He had been well until two months before admission, when he had tenderness over the chin and saw a pea-size lump when he pulled his lower lip down. A dentist in another state confirmed the presence of a swelling on the anterior aspect of the mandibular alveolus, in the area of the right mandibular canine. Two or three weeks later, the patient consulted an oral and maxillofacial surgeon, who also found the firm mass, which was now 1 cm
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From the Departments of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (T.B.D.), Radiology (P.A.C.), and Pathology (G.P.N.), Massachusetts General Hospital; and the Departments of Radiology (P.A.C.) and Pathology (G.P.N.), Harvard Medical School.
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