@article{Devi_2018, title={Diagnostic Accuracy Of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology in Salivary Gland Neoplasms}, volume={5}, url={https://valleyinternational.net/index.php/ijmsci/article/view/1080}, DOI={10.18535/ijmsci/v5i2.08}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Introduction-</strong> Evaluation of diagnostic accuracy of fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in salivary gland neoplasms.</p> <p><strong>Materials and method –</strong> this is a crossectional study provides analysis of 82 salivary neoplasms out of 244 salivary FNAC during the period September 2011 to august 2014. All non neoplastic lesions were excluded from the study.All age group and both sex were included. FNAC results were  reviewed, the morphology of individual cells and their patterns in the smears were studied  in detail  and diagnosis were made. Histopathological studies were done whenever possible and were considered the gold standard.</p> <p><strong>Results –</strong> The study included 82 cases, male to female ratio was 1.2 :1 ; commonly involved age group was 20 to 40 years. Fiftyfive cases (67.07%) were diagnosed as benign, 27 cases (32.93%) as malignant tumors. Pleomorphic  adenoma(59.76%) was most common benign neoplasms and mucoepidermoid carcinoma(23.17%) was most common malignant neoplasms. Parotid was most frequently involved gland(63.41%).Benign tumors common in parotid gland malignant tumors common in submandibular gland.Diagnostic accuracy was found to be 94.87% with false negative rate 5.1%.</p> <p><strong>Conclusion –</strong> FNAC of salivary gland proved to be  a highly accurate initial diagnostic test for preoperative evaluation of salivary neoplasms.</p>}, number={2}, journal={International Journal of Medical Science and Clinical Invention}, author={Devi, Junu}, year={2018}, month={Feb.}, pages={3532–3536} }