Research Article
Diagnostic Accuracy of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology in Parotid Lesions
Table 2
Histological and cytological diagnosis.
| | Histology | Cytology discordant |
| | Pleomorphic adenoma | 77 | 4 (5%) | | Warthin’s tumors | 11 | 2 (2%) | | Sialadenitis | 6 | 3 (50%) | | Monomorphic adenoma | 1 | 1 | | Tuberculosis | 1 | 1 | | Cyst | 1 | | | Lymph nodes | 1 | 1 | | Total (Benign) | 98 (76%) | 12 (12%) |
| | Myoepithelial carcinoma | 1 | | | Sq cell carcinoma | 1 | | | Salivary duct carcinoma | 1 | 1 | | Carcinosarcoma | 1 | 1 | | Metastatic melanoma | 1 | | | Mucoepidermoid carcinoma | 16 | 2 (1%) | | Adenoid cystic carcinoma | 4 | | | Acinic cell carcinoma | 3 | 1 | | Lymphoma | 2 | 1 (50%) | | Malignant mixed tumor | 1 | 1 | | Total (Malignant) | 31 (24%) | 7 (22%) |
| | Total | 129 | 19 ( 14%) |
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