Table of Conents

SALIVARY GLAND TUMORS; CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL FEATURES


ONCOCYTOMA


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DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS

  • Diffuse oncocytosis in old ages
  • Nodular oncocytic hyperplasia
  • Warthin’s tumor
  • Oncocytic cystadenoma
  • Foci of oncocytosis in mixed tumor (myxochondroid areas, myoepithelial proliferation)
  • Foci of oncocytosis in mucepidermoid Carcinoma (positive mucicarmine staining)
  • Clear cell carcinomas (infiltrative pattern, cell pleomorphism, lack of PTAH positive mitochondria)
  • Clear cell mucoepidermoid carcinoma
  • Clear cell acinic cell adenocarcinoma
  • Clear cell adenocarcinoma
  • Epithelial-myoepithelial carcinoma
  • Metastatic renal cell carcinoma