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We had a case similar to the one reported by Drut and Giménez,1 which we called “Psammoma body-rich papillary cystic acinic cell carcinoma,”2 and we presented this at the 34th European Congress of Cytology, June 15-18, 2008, in Rovaniemi, Finland. A 24-year-old woman presented with a 5-month history...
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| Summary: | We had a case similar to the one reported by Drut and Giménez,1 which we called “Psammoma body-rich papillary cystic acinic cell carcinoma,”2 and we presented this at the 34th European Congress of Cytology, June 15-18, 2008, in Rovaniemi, Finland. A 24-year-old woman presented with a 5-month history of a painless lump on the left side of the face. A preliminary diagnosis of papillary cystic salivary gland neoplasm was made on fine-needle aspira-tion (FNA), and a superficial parotidectomy was performed. The final diagnosis was papillary cystic acinic cell carcinoma with numerous psammoma bodies. The smears were highly cellular, mainly composed of papillary clusters and isolated cells with vacuolated cytoplasm; eccentric round nuclei and inconspicuous nucleoli, resembling foamy histiocytes; and numerous psammoma bodies with concentric lamination and radial striations (Figures 1A and 1B). Some of the psammoma bodies were surrounded by the above-mentioned vacuolated cells, resembling cannon balls (Figure 2). There was also a moderate amount of colloid-like particles, some of them partially calcified. The cell block showed papillary clusters with many psammoma bodies (Figure 3). The gross specimen consisted of a portion of parotid measuring 6 × 5 × 4 cm3, containing a |
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