title: Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of salivary duct carcinoma: report of five cases.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fýrat
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Cramer
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Feczko
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kratzer
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Layfield
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Eisenhut
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Glant
mesh_terms: 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*