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  • Title: Fine needle aspiration diagnosis of a pulmonary metastasis from a cutaneous adenoid cystic carcinoma. A case report.
    Author: Zimmerman RL, Bibbo M.
    Journal: Acta Cytol; 1998; 42(2):367-70. PubMed ID: 9568137.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: Primary cutaneous adenoid cystic carcinomas (CACC) rarely metastasize to the lung. The few documented cases have been diagnosed by surgical biopsy. CASE: 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. CONCLUSION: 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.
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