title: The role of peroral fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in the diagnosis of parapharyngeal lesions--a study of 51 cases.
abstract: The utility of peroral fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in diagnosis of 51 parapharyngeal lesions was studied from January, 1986 till May, 1991. The age of the patients ranged from 6 years to 85 years. Analysis of results showed 9 inflammatory lesions, 22 benign tumours and 20 malignant tumours. Correlation with histopathology showed diagnostic accuracy of 90.2% with no false positive report. Review of FNAC of head and neck lesions showed hardly any publication on aspiration cytology of parapharyngeal masses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cytopathology, S.V.S. Marwari and Cancer Detection Centre, Raja Rammohan Sarani, Calcutta.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mondal
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gupta
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010610:Pharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*