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Table 2 Fine Needle Aspirate results

From: Secretory carcinoma: the eastern Canadian experience and literature review

Patient

FNA Result

001

Benign appearing with appearance of oncocytes and lymphocytes suggestive of Warthin’s Tumor

002

Few groups of epithelioid cells in a background of lymphocytes suggestive of Warthin’s Tumor

003

No FNA performed

004

Mildly atypical cells arranged singly and in sheets with abundant, vacuolated, finely granular cytoplasm suggestive of acinic cell carcinoma vs oncocytic neoplasm

005

Suspicious for malignancy

006

No FNA performed

007

Negative for malignancy

008

No FNA performed

009

No FNA performed

010

Sheets of atypical cells with focally glandular spaces, suggestive of adenocarcinoma vs acinic cell carcinoma vs salivary duct carcinoma

011

Abnormal appearance, suggestive of papillary cystadenoma vs intraductal papilloma, cannot exclude low grade mucoepidermoid

012

Equivocal S100 staining, positive for vimentin and CK7; negative for TTF-1, thyroglobulin, and CD10; suggestive of adenocarcinoma

013

Few malignant cells, positive for AE1 and AE3; negative for LCA and S100; suggestive of poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma