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To the Editor: In December 2004, an 84-year-old man presented with a painless supraclavicular mass on the right side. The mass had first been noted one year before and had gradually increased in size.

Sixty-one years earlier, in 1943 during World War II, in Russia, he had been wounded in the right shoulder and neck by grenade splinters. Most of the splinters were surgically removed. The postoperative period was uneventful. After the war he worked as a farmer.

Physical examination revealed a soft subcutaneous mass in the right supraclavicular region, measuring approximately 10 cm in diameter. The overlying skin was . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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