Midline Tongue Defect in a Pediatric Patient
A male infant presented with an anterior midline tongue indentation. What is your diagnosis?
JAMA Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery
Woman Presenting With Calvarial Mass
A 48-year-old woman presented with episodic headaches, light sensitivity, and a painful, pulsating mass on her forehead. What is your diagnosis?
Patient With a Cough and Calcified Cervical Lymphadenopathy
A 66-year-old man presented with a persistent cough, multiple bilateral pulmonary nodules, intrathoracic lymphadenopathy, a partially calcified left supraclavicular lymph node, a left thyroid nodule, and left level IV neck lymph nodes with calcifications. What is your diagnosis?
Gingival Swelling and Frequent Epistaxis in an Older Woman
A 69-year-old woman was referred due to widespread gingival swelling, which had been worsening over the preceding 3 months and was unresponsive to antibiotic treatment. Gingival biopsy showed areas of chronic inflammation, microabscess foci, and pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia of the covering…
Multiloculated Lesion of Right Mandibular Angle
A healthy 25-year-old female presented with an 8-month history of a painful right mandibular lesion. What is your diagnosis?
A 13-Year-Old Male With Parotid Region Mass
A 13-year-old male presented with a 7-month history of a painless, progressively enlarging mass in the right parotid region. What is your diagnosis?
Deep Learning in Otolaryngology – A Narrative Review
Importance Deep learning (DL), a subset of artificial intelligence, uses multilayered neural networks to uncover complex patterns in large datasets without manual feature engineering. Unlike traditional machine learning, DL autonomously learns hierarchical representations from raw data, offering distinct advantages for analyzing…
Vertebral Lesions in a Patient With Salivary Duct Carcinoma
A 62-year-old man with a history of submandibular salivary duct, alcohol use disorder, facial flushing after small amounts of alcohol presented with diminished superficial sensation, dysesthesia, and impaired proprioception in the lower extremities. What is your diagnosis?
Hoarseness With Supraglottic Ulcer in an Immunocompetent Adult
A 61-year-old man presented to the otolaryngology clinic with a 2-month history of progressive hoarseness, dysphagia, odynophagia, and persistent globus sensation. What is your diagnosis?
A Patient With Recurrent Pleomorphic Adenomas
A 31-year-old female presented with a progressively enlarging left submandibular mass and history of pleomorphic adenoma of the left submandibular gland. What is your diagnosis?
