Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of salivary duct carcinoma: report of five cases.
Salivary duct carcinoma is a high grade malignancy which histologically strongly resembles ductal carcinoma of the breast. The findings from five cases of histologically proven salivary duct carcinoma sampled by preoperative fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology are presented. Characteristic cytomorphologic features include cohesive clusters and flat sheets of epithelial cells which display a cribriform pattern with eccentrically located, hyperchromatic nuclei, abundant finely granular cytoplasm, and necrosis in the smear background.
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Department of Pathology, Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
Cramer
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Feczko
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Kratzer
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Layfield
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Eisenhut
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Glant
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D000368:Aged; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012468:Salivary Gland Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*