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Record W7116939047 · doi:10.1080/01676830.2025.2601125

Pediatric lacrimal sac non-keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma with DEK-AFF2 gene fusion: clinical and histopathological case report

2025· article· en· W7116939047 on OpenAlex
Muhannad A. Alnahdi, Georges Nassrallah, Anthea Lafrenière, Haiying Chen, Nikolaus E. Wolter, Allan Vescan, Ralph Gilbert, Dan DeAngelis

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

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Bibliographic record

VenueOrbit · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicNasolacrimal Duct Obstruction Treatments
Canadian institutionsUniversity Health NetworkUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLacrimal sacDebulkingNasolacrimal duct obstructionDacryocystorhinostomyBiopsyNasolacrimal ductBasal cellLesionOtorhinolaryngology

Abstract

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Inverted papillomas (IP) in children are extremely rare, benign epithelial growths known to recur. DEF-AFF2 squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), a newly identified, aggressive, and metastatic non-keratinizing SCC, can mimic IP. A 15-year-old male presented with recurrent episodes of left dacryocystitis and epiphora. His exam revealed left nasolacrimal duct obstruction, and an endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy was planned. Intraoperatively, there was a sudden prolapse of soft tissue after incising into the left lacrimal sac. Lesion biopsy initially revealed pathologic features consistent with inverted papilloma; however, RNA sequencing revealed a DEF-AFF2 fusion reclassifying it to SCC. Otolaryngology performed staged debulking followed by proton radiotherapy. There was no evidence of recurrence for 18 months. DEF-AFF2 SCC is a distinct, locally aggressive tumor with rare involvement of the lacrimal apparatus. Combined surgical and radiation therapy lead to adequate response. Accurate diagnosis requires a multidisciplinary approach due to its challenging and rare presentation, particularly in an atypical age group.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.048
Threshold uncertainty score0.761

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.301
Teacher spread0.280 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it