Value of Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology of Parotid Gland Masses
✍ Scribed by Peter Zbären; Catherine Schär; Michel A. Hotz; Heinz Loosli
- Book ID
- 110083845
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 63 KB
- Volume
- 111
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0023-852X
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## Abstract An investigation of the role of blind fine‐needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in the assessment of palpable abdominal masses was carried out on 196 patients: 124 hepatic, 30 retroperitoneal, and 42 other masses. All of the smears were stained either by Papanicolaou stain or by hematoxyli
The results of 49 specimens obtained by fine-needle aspiration biopsy of parotid gland lesions were compared with the pathologic diagnoses of the surgically resected specimens. Cytologically, 33 lesions were diagnosed as benign, with 30 of these confirmed histologically and three false-negative resu