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Update from the 5th Edition of the World Health Organization Classification of Head and Neck Tumors: The Neck and Lymph Nodes, Metastasis, and Melanocytic Tumors

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The changes made in the fifth edition of the WHO Classification of Head and Neck Tumors demonstrate the recent diagnostic, histopathological, and molecular advances in the field, and this updated information will hopefully lead to improved and standardized tumor subtyping. This review summarizes the changes related tumors and tumor-like lesions of the neck and lymph nodes (Chapter 11), metastasis to the head and neck region (Chapter 15), and melanocytic tumors (Chapter 10).

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The author would like to give special thanks to Jill Gregory, CMI, (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) and Annikka Weissferdt, MD (Department of Pathology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX) for providing Figs. 1 and 4, respectively.

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Hernandez-Prera, J.C. Update from the 5th Edition of the World Health Organization Classification of Head and Neck Tumors: The Neck and Lymph Nodes, Metastasis, and Melanocytic Tumors. Head and Neck Pathol 16, 110–122 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12105-022-01433-w

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