Volume : VI, Issue : VIII, August - 2017

Cytological study of lesion causing Parotid Gland enlargement through FNAC

Amulya Singh

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 A oad spectrum of pathologies that present with parotid swelling and extraglandular masses can also mimic parotid lesions clinically. It is frequently difficult on clinical grounds alone to distinguish between neoplastic and non–neoplastic causes for a parotid mass and also to reliably differentiate between benign and malignant neoplasms. Fine–needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) was used for the investigation of salivary gland lesions for the first time simultaneously in the 1920s in the United States and in Europe.1,2. This procedure was thoroughly developed in the 1950s and 1960s by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm3 and the Institute of  Curie in Paris4 and popularized in the 1970s. A large and growing body of literature intent on applauding its importance as a diagnostic tool has consistently documented accuracy rates ranging from 80 to 98%5–8, a truly remarkable performance given the bewildering large and diverse group of neoplastic and inflammatory lesions to involve the parotid gland.

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Amulya Singh, Cytological study of lesion causing Parotid Gland enlargement through FNAC, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : VOLUME-6 | ISSUE-8 | AUGUST‾2017


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