Open AccessDiagnosis of sebaceous lymphadenoma by fine needle aspiration in a patient with Cowden syndrome: Case report and review of the literature
Author(s) -
Tarek Jazaerly,
Sudeshna Bandyopadhyay,
Nour Almardini,
Mujtaba Husain
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
cyto journal/cytojournal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 0974-5963
pISSN - 1742-6413
DOI - 10.4103/1742-6413.141815
Subject(s) - cowden syndrome , medicine , parotid gland , dermatology , pathology , pten , biology , apoptosis , pi3k/akt/mtor pathway , biochemistry
Sebaceous lymphadenoma (SLA) is a rare benign tumor of the salivary gland that commonly arises in the parotid gland in adults. It is rarely diagnosed correctly preoperatively. In addition, to the best of our knowledge, SLA has not been described yet in the literature in association with Cowden′s syndrome (CS). We present an extremely rare case of parotid SLA that was diagnosed preoperatively by fine needle aspiration in a patient with CS