ArticleCase reports in pathology2015
Cytological features of mammary analogue secretory carcinoma of the parotid gland in a 15-year-old girl: a case report with review of the literature.
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- Non Indigenous Mammary Secretory Carcinoma of Parotid Gland - An Unusual Presentation.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2024Article
- NTRK3 mutation in secretory carcinoma of the parotid gland: A Case report.Clinical case reports · 2022Article
- An Underappreciated Cytomorphological Feature of Secretory Carcinoma of Salivary Gland on Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy: Case Report with Literature Review.Head and neck pathology · 2022Review
- Nanostring-based screening for tyrosine kinase fusions in inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Secretory carcinoma: the eastern Canadian experience and literature review.Journal of otolaryngology - head & neck surgery = Le Journal d'oto-rhino-laryngologie et de chirurgie cervico-faciale · 2018Review
- MASC Gets UNMASKED: Visiting a Rare Tumor with Emphasis on Cytomorphological Features.Journal of cytologyArticle
- Secretory carcinoma of salivary gland - A systematic review of pediatric case reports and case series.Journal of oral and maxillofacial pathology : JOMFPReview
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Abstract
Mammary analogue secretory carcinoma (MASC) is a recently recognized tumor of salivary glands characterized by the ETV6-NTRK3 fusion gene. This tumor is very rare in children and adolescents. We report a case of MASC in a 15-year-old girl, the fifth youngest case so far reported. The patient complained of a left infra-auricular mass that gradually enlarged for a year. Fine-needle aspiration cytology/imprint cytology showed individual tumor cells that had faintly eosinophilic granular cytoplasm with secretion granules sometimes seen adjacent to the tumor cells. These cytological features overlapped between those of zymogen granule-poor acinic cell carcinoma (AciCC) and MASC. In addition to the case report, we present a review of the related literature with a focus on the cytological features of MASC. The differential diagnostic clues are also discussed.
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