## Background: Many case reports describing various benign and malignant disease entities diagnosed in cystic parotid gland lesions by fine-needle aspiration (fna) exist in the literature. very few studies, however, discuss the efficacy and the diagnostic difficulties of fna cytology in such lesion
Fine-needle aspiration of spindle cell and mesenchymal lesions of the salivary glands
โ Scribed by David C. Chhieng; Jean-Marc Cohen; Joan F. Cangiarella
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 193 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 8755-1039
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Three hundred and forty-one salivary gland fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology specimens taken over a 6-yr period were reviewed and correlated with clinical and/or histological findings. The aspirates were derived from parotid gland (212 cases), submandibular gland (124 cases), and minor salivary
## BACKGROUND. The objective of this study was to determine the utility of fineneedle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) in the primary diagnosis of mesenchymal lesions. A total of 162 cases with a diagnosis of benign or malignant mesenchymal lesion (excluding lipoma) on FNAB were retrieved from the cytopa