“Suspicious” salivary gland FNA: Risk of malignancy and interinstitutional variability

CONCLUSIONSOverall, 83.3% of SFM salivary gland FNA specimens turned out to be malignant; there was no significant interinstitutional variability in the ROMs. The SFM category for salivary gland FNA is very homogeneous, and the ROMs are quite similar worldwide. Cancer Cytopathol 2017. © 2017 American Cancer Society.

Source: Cancer Cytopathology - October 1, 2017 Category: Pathology Authors: Zahra Maleki, James Adam Miller, Seyedeh Elham Arab, Guido Fadda, Ping Bo, Olga Wise, Esther Diana Rossi, Nirag Jhala, Chandra Ashish, Syed Z. Ali, He Wang Tags: Original Article Source Type: research