Table 2.

FNA performance for diagnosing cystic salivary gland neoplasms

(adapted from Allison et al. [17])

Diagnostic category	Sensitivity (%)		Specificity (%)		Positive predictive value (%)		Negative predictive value (%)
Neoplasms	All	Malignant	All	Malignant	All	Malignant	All	Malignant
All cases	41.6	50.0	99.0	96.4	90.9	60.0	87.6	94.7
Mucinous	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Non-mucinous (lymphocytic)	9.1	20.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	85.0	93.4
Non-mucinous (non-lymphocytic)	44.4	33.3	97.7	92.0	80.0	20.0	89.6	95.8