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Introduction: Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) can be challenging to provide a precise diagnosis in salivary gland cytopathology due to diversity of lesions and cytomorphological convergence between the tumors and within the same tumor of salivary gland. The recently proposed Milan System for Reporting Salivary Gland Cytopathology (MSRSGC) provides a risk stratication-based classication system with an intrinsic risk of malignancy (ROM) for each diagnostic category, which aims to furnish useful information to the clinicians. This study was undertaken to evaluate the diagnostic utility and validity of MSRSGC. A 4-year retrospective Materials and Methods: study was conducted at a tertiary care hospital in Central Gujarat in Western India. A total of 90 cases of FNAC of salivary gland lesions for the period of January 2018 to March 2021 were reviewed. Patient clinical details, FNAC smears and histological slides where available were retrieved from the departmental records. Results: The cases belong to following categories: non-diagnostic (4.4%), non-neoplastic (10%), atypia of undetermined signicance (1.1%), benign neoplasm (68.9%), salivary gland neoplasm of uncertain malignant potential (8.9%), suspicious for malignancy (2.2%), and malignant (4.4%). Out of 90 cases, 62 cases (68.8%) had follow-up. The ROM were 7.6% for category IV—A and 50% for category IV-B. The sensitivity, specicity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, and likelihood ratio for differentiating between benign and malignant lesions were recorded as 98.1%, 42.9%, 92.8%, 75.0%, and 1.750, respectively. Conclusion: Application of MSRSGC has immense value for standardization of reporting of salivary gland FNAC. The Milan system of reporting is a risk stratication system which can improve the overall effectiveness of reporting and care of patients.

BACKGROUND We aimed to evaluate the significance of electromyographic findings in the intrinsic foot muscles (IFMs) of patients with skin biopsy proven small fiber neuropathy (SFN). METHODS This was a single-center retrospective analysis of patients who underwent skin biopsy for intra-epidermal nerve fiber density (IENFD) measurement and electrodiagnostic (EDX) study for evaluation of polyneuropathy. RESULTS A total of 1416 patents with normal lower extremity EDX studies proximal to the foot were included. Active denervation was seen in 16.1% of IFMs in patients with skin biopsy proven SFN and 4.1% of patients without SFN (P < .0001). Reinnervation changes without active denervation were observed in 30.4% of SFN patients and 23.8% of patients without SFN (P = .01). IENFD was lower in SFN patients with active denervation in IFMs than without (P < .0001). CONCLUSIONS Evaluation of active denervation in the IFMs can reveal large fiber dysfunction in SFN patients with otherwise normal routine EDX findings.