BACKGROUND Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) has been widely accepted as a safe method for diagnosis of salivary gland lesions and its accuracy is increased with increasing the experience of the physician. This study was conducted to examine the sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of FNAC of salivary gland lesions by cyto-histological correlation and to identify the discrepancies that co...

Salivary gland tumors are uncommon, the world wide annual incidence of salivary gland tumors ranges from 0.4 to 13.5 cases per 100 000 population (Auclair et al., 1991). Tumors of salivary glands account for 2% to 6.5 % of head and neck neoplasms and 21% to 46% are malignant (Ellis & Auclair, 1996). In Bangkok, during the period 2001-2003, the estimated age standardized incidence rate of saliva...

Chronic sclerosing sialadenitis is a chronic inflammatory salivary gland disease. Küttner reported 4 cases of submandibular gland lesions for the first time in 1896. Chronic sclerosing sialadenitis is a very rare inflammatory lesion of the parotid gland and cannot be easily distinguished from salivary malignant masses. We reported a 28-year-old male with a painful parotid tumour, which grew slo...

OBJECTIVE To report the role of selective use of preoperative fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) in patients with major salivary gland lesions at a tertiary care cancer center. DESIGN Retrospective review of FNAB results compared with final histologic diagnosis as the criterion standard. SETTING An academic tertiary care cancer center. PATIENTS A consecutive series of 258 patients who u...

BACKGROUND Salivary gland masses constitute a diagnostic challenge in daily clinical practice and tissue sampling is required to establish a diagnosis. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of ultrasonography-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy (UGFNAB) in the diagnosis of salivary gland lesions. METHODS From January 2007 to September 2010, a total of 158 patients who underwent both UGFNAB and s...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the utility of fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) in the diagnosis and treatment planning of the lesions of the salivary gland. METHODS Eight hundred seventy-nine aspiration biopsies of the lesion of the salivary gland over a 10-year period, from 1997 to 2006, were reviewed with special reference to its value in the clinical treatment of patien...

background: salivary gland tumors are relatively uncommon and they consist of 3-10% of head and neck neoplasms. most of studies have shown geographic variation in the incidence and histopathologic types of salivary gland neoplasms. the aim of this study was to evaluate the salivary gland tumors in isfahan for 10 years duration. materials and methods: in this epidemiological study, 229 medical r...

Background: Salivary gland tumours account for 3-10% of all the head and neck neoplasm. FNAC is being increasingly used in the diagnosis of salivary gland tumours. The objective of this study was to evaluate the age, sex and site distribution and to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in various salivary gland lesions in correlation with their histopatholo...