Journal Reviews

Clinical histopathology of 250 parotidectomy patients

30 April 2020 | | ENTA-Head & Neck | OMFS, fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC), oral and maxillofacial surgery, parotid gland tumour, parotidectomy, salivary gland

Clinical histopathology of 250 parotidectomy patients This is a retrospective study of 250 consecutive parotidectomy patients at units in Belgium and the Netherlands. The sensitivity and specificity of FNAC was 64% and 99% respectively, the sensitivity being slightly lower than...

Extracapsular dissection versus parotidectomy

30 April 2020 | | ENTA-Head & Neck | benign parotid tumour, extracapsular dissection, literature review, superficial parotidectomy

This is a literature review of 16 papers using the PRISMA protocol. In comparing the two techniques, not surprisingly, they found that extracapsular dissection was associated with a reduced incidence of facial nerve paralysis and Frey’s syndrome and a shorter...

Applying ‘Sal classification’ to parotid cytology to replicate the success of the Thy classification system

1 September 2018 | | Sal classification, fine-needle aspiration biopsy, histopathological diagnosis, parotid gland, parotidectomy

The usefulness of the Thy classification in thyroid gland disease has led to attempts to generate a similar cytology classification for parotid lesions. However, the accuracy of fine-needle aspiration cytology in salivary gland disease is more variable because of the...