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Objective: To evaluate the utility of intraoral fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in diagnosis of minor salivary gland neoplasms (MSGN) with application of Milan system of reporting salivary gland cytopathology; keeping histopathology as gold standard and to detail the cytological findings of MSGNs. Method: Retrospective study between Jan 2008 and June 2017 (appro × 10 years) on the cytology of the minor salivary gland tumor along with the histopathological correlation. The relevant clinical data was collected from the medical record. Result: Sixty-four cases of MSGNs were included in the study. The histodiagnosis of the 41 were available. Twenty-one cases were diagnosed as malignant, while rest 20 cases were reported as benign. The most common tumor diagnosed was pleomorphic adenoma (PA) (50% cases), followed by mucoepidermoid carcinoma (14%) and adenoid cystic carcinoma (12.5%). The most common site of MSGT was found to be hard palate (44%), followed by soft palate (23%), floor of the mouth (12%), lip (11%), buccal mucosa (5%), and tongue (5%) with no gender predilection. Sensitivity of FNAC for detection of malignancy was 81% while specificity 95%. For malignancies, positive predictive value for malignancies was 17/18 (94.4%) and negative predictive value was 19/23 (82.3%). According to Milan system out of 21 cases in category IV B, 4 cases were found malignant (Category VI), while 1/18 case in category VI turned out to be nonneoplastic lesion (Category II). Conclusion: FNAC is imperative in early diagnosis and subsequent management of MSGNs [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a case study of a preterm male child with a bald head and a positive family history of similar complaints in the older sibling. Topics include child being bald with a few short, lustreless hairs present in the parietal region of the scalp; and smears showing a beaded appearance of the shaft of the hair with elliptical nodes having the thickness of a normal hair shaft.

A case study a 24‑year‑old woman presented with rapidly progressing painless left cheek swelling for 2 months with no history of fever, trauma, or pus discharge. It mentions that Contrast‑enhanced computed tomography (CT) scan of a paranasal sinus with nose showed a heterogeneously enhancing massin the maxillo‑facial region destroying the left maxillary sinus and orbital floor.

A middle-aged female presented with a painless, slowly growing mass in the left parotid region; fine needle aspiration cytology from the mass showed uniform spindle cells in a fibrillary background with some cells showing palisading. A cytodiagnosis of schwannoma was given, which was further confirmed on biopsy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]