Fine Needle Aspiration Diagnosis of a Pulmonary Metastasis from a Cutaneous Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- case report
- Published by S. Karger AG in Acta Cytologica
- Vol. 42 (2) , 367-370
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000331617
Abstract
Primary cutaneous adenoid cystic carcinomas (CACC) rarely metastasize to the lung. The few documented cases have been diagnosed by surgical biopsy. An 82-year-old female presented with an enlarging lung mass 15 years after being diagnosed with CACC. The diagnosis of metastatic adenoid cystic carcinoma was made following a computed tomography-guided fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy. Metastatic CACC in the lung can be diagnosed by FNA. Knowledge of the patient's clinical history and morphologic variants of CACC is important in making the diagnosis.Keywords
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