Lori Scanga

Utility of fine-needle aspiration and core biopsy with touch preparation in the diagnosis of renal lesions.

Cytologic evaluation by fine‐needle aspiration (FNA) and core biopsy (CB) with touch preparation (TP) is used in the diagnosis of renal lesions.

Life, death, and the risk of transfusion: a university hospital experience.

BACKGROUND: Frequently one encounters donor recruitment statements like “. . . about 90 percent of American adults will need at least one blood transfusion in the course of a lifetime.” To assess the validity of such statements, the lifetime transfusion rate of patients dying in our tertiary‐care hospital was determined. It would be expected that patients dying in a tertiary‐care, Level 1 trauma center university hospital would have one of the highest transfusion rates.

Postoperative radiotherapy for diffuse pigmented villonodular synovitis of the temporomandibular joint

BACKGROUND Pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS) is a rare/benign condition of the synovial joint lining. It most commonly presents in the knee but has also been reported to occur in the temporomandibular joint (TMJ). Although there are several series reporting the use of postoperative radiotherapy (PORT) for extremity PVNS, there is scant literature on the use of PORT for PVNS of the TMJ. METHODS We conducted a literature review for case reports related to PVNS of the TMJ and discuss two additional cases treated with surgery and PORT. RESULTS 71 cases were found in the literature. 89% were the diffuse subtype. 92% had primary surgery and 7% had PORT. 68% were locally controlled. Both patients treated at our institution are locally controlled. CONCLUSIONS PVNS of the TMJ is a rare entity. Surgery is the mainstay of treatment but PORT may be useful for local control of extensive tumors or positive margins.

Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the parotid as a secondary malignancy after chemotherapy in a child with neuroblastoma.

Secondary neoplasms are not reported frequently after neuroblastoma, which until recently was a cancer with limited long-term survival. Although salivary gland tumors in children and adolescents may be idiopathic, they are seen more often after head and neck radiation. We report a child with stage 4 neuroblastoma treated with high-dose multiagent chemotherapy without radiation therapy to his neck who, within 1 year of treatment, developed a low-grade but large and locally aggressive mucoepidermoid carcinoma of his parotid gland further characterized by a t(11;19)(q21;p13.1). Our patient extends the spectrum of secondary neoplasms after neuroblastoma.

Isolated myxoma of the external auditory canal.

The majority of neoplasms within the external auditory canal are benign. Management of these primary tumors and their local recurrences are discussed herein. We present a case of an isolated myxoma of the external auditory canal with a review of the common histopathological and radiographic features. Although rare, this highlights the possibility of encountering benign tumor types that carry associated morbidity or mortality due to manifestations outside of the head and neck. Laryngoscope, 124:1220–1222, 2014

Northern Italy in the American South: Assessing interobserver reliability within the Milan System for Reporting Salivary Gland Cytopathology: Interobserver Reliability Within Milan System

The Milan System for Reporting Salivary Gland Cytopathology (MSRSGC) has been proposed to standardize salivary gland fine‐needle aspiration (FNA) diagnoses. This study assessed salivary gland FNA results and risk of malignancy (ROM) rates at the University of North Carolina as well as the interobserver reliability (IOR) of the atypia of undetermined significance (AUS) and salivary gland neoplasm of uncertain malignant potential (SUMP) categories.