Guimarães André Luiz, Perdigão Paôlla Freitas, Siqueira Fernanda Mafra, Castro Wagner Henriques, Gomez Ricardo Santiago
Department of Oral Surgery and Pathology, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Acta Cytol. 2003 Nov-Dec;47(6):1074-6. doi: 10.1159/000326650.
Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is an important technique in the diagnosis of oral and maxillofacial conditions. The purpose of the present paper is to report a case of oral metastasis of breast carcinoma diagnosed by FNAC.
A 45-year-old, black woman was referred for evaluation of symptomatic swelling in the left mandible. The medical history revealed that the patient had undergone extensive surgery to remove a lobular carcinoma. She had finished chemotherapy treatment about 5 months earlier. Due to the main diagnostic considerations of metastatic and inflammatory disease, FNAC was performed. The cytologic picture was consistent with a metastatic glandular neoplasm.
FNAC is a safe, reliable, cost-effective and easy procedure and sometimes eliminates the need for open biopsy.
细针穿刺细胞学检查（FNAC）是诊断口腔颌面部疾病的一项重要技术。本文旨在报告1例经FNAC诊断的乳腺癌口腔转移病例。
一名45岁的黑人女性因左侧下颌骨出现有症状的肿胀而前来接受评估。病史显示该患者曾接受广泛手术以切除小叶癌。她大约在5个月前完成了化疗。由于主要诊断考虑为转移性疾病和炎症性疾病，因此进行了FNAC。细胞学表现与转移性腺肿瘤一致。
FNAC是一种安全、可靠、经济高效且简便的检查方法，有时无需进行开放性活检。
