Fine Needle Aspiration of a Parotid Mass on 61-Year-Old Man
by Wells Chandler, MD, Pathology Resident, Department of Pathology, University of Utah.
Editor: Brian T. Collins, MD, Professor of Pathology, University of Utah, and Medical Director, Cytopathology, ARUP Laboratories
A sixty-one-year-old man presented to his primary care physician with an enlarged left parotid gland. The patient was referred to an otolaryngologist, who palpated a firm 2 cm nodule in the region of the left parotid gland. The patient was otherwise asymptomatic. A fine needle aspirate (FNA) was performed and smears and a cell block were prepared.
FNA Findings
Final Diagnosis & Discussion
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