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Fine needle aspiration of salivary gland tumors
S Shintani1, H Matsuura, Y Hasegawa
1Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Aichi Cancer Center, Nagoya, Japan.
International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
|August 1, 1997
Abstract:
The usefulness of fine needle aspiration (FNA) as a preoperative diagnostic procedure was studied in 43 patients with salivary gland tumors. Nine of the tumors were malignant and 34 benign. The diagnostic sensitivity of FNA was 88.9% (8/9), the specificity 94.1% (32/34) and the accuracy 93.0% (40/43). These results indicate that FNA is a highly sensitive and specific screening procedure.