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34129 Surgery

A 6-year-old girl is referred to you by her pediatrician complaining of a pain in her throat and presenting with an anterior cervical midline mass for several weeks. After a course of antibiotics the inflammation and erythema resolved but the mass still persisted. The mother is concerned. She remembers a time when the child was 3-years-old complaining of similar symptoms, but then it spontaneously resolved. Physical chest exam is normal but the mass appears to rise upward when the girl sticks out her tongue. What is the most common diagnosis?

ALingual thyroid
BBranchial cleft remnant
CThyroglossal duct cyst
DUncomplicated cervical neck abscess
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34131 Medicine

A 44-year-old man comes to the physician after noticing his right pupil looks larger than his left. He thinks it has been this way for several weeks. He has no pain and no restriction of his eye movements When examined in a darkly lit room, both pupils are 4mm in size. When the lights are turned on. his right pupil dilates to 4mm and his left pupil constricts to 2mm in size. His eye movements are normal as is the rest of his neurological examination. He does not have a drooping eyelid. This physical finding is due to which of the following pathological processes?

AAbnormal dilation of an artery due to weakening of vessel wall
BOcclusion of the superior sagittal sinus
CRupture of middle meningeal artery causing transtentorial herniation
DRupture of the inner lumen of the internal carotid artery with thrombus formation at the site of rupture
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