Female patient 48 yo suffers from a tumor of her tongue for 2 months. The tongue tumor maybe is recurrent from the small tongue tumor 3 years before and now is still a scar on right border of tongue, she said. Some lymph nodes were removed and she underwent radiation therapy on neck region.
Ultrasound detects a hypoechoic mass at right border of tongue, but is more deeper and larger than its surface. # 41x40mm.
Later MRI confirmed the tongue tumor at right border but it is still one side and not comes to over the midline of the tongue.
Partial tongue was removed and reconstructed to keep her normal voice. Report of histopathology is squamous cell carcinoma, grade II.
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