Educational Case: Diagnostic Approach to Salivary Gland Neoplasms

Preeti Malik; Saeed Asiry; D Yitzchak Goldstein; Samer N Khader

doi:10.1177/23742895211015342

Educational Case: Diagnostic Approach to Salivary Gland Neoplasms

Acad Pathol. 2021 May 25:8:23742895211015342. doi: 10.1177/23742895211015342. eCollection 2021 Jan-Dec.

Authors

Preeti Malik¹, Saeed Asiry², D Yitzchak Goldstein², Samer N Khader²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital at Montefiore, NY, USA.
² Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA.

Abstract

The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology. These are divided into three basic competencies: Disease Mechanisms and Processes, Organ System Pathology, and Diagnostic Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology. For additional information, and a full list of learning objectives for all three competencies, see http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2374289517715040. ¹.

Keywords: cytopathology; genetic basis of salivary gland neoplasia; head and neck neoplasia; organ system pathology; pathology competencies; salivary duct carcinoma; salivary gland tumors.