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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Cytopathol. 2020 Nov 19;129(4):318–325. doi: 10.1002/cncy.22388

TABLE 3.

Cytologic features of Salivary Gland Carcinoma with High-Grade Transformation in Previous Studies

	Histology	Diagnostic Category	Cytologic Diagnosis	Cell Component	Nuclear Pleomorphism	Prominent Nucleoli	High Nuclear/Cytoplasmic Ratio	Background
González-Peramato et al¹⁰	AcCC-HGT	Malignant	Salivary carcinoma, AcCC, and high-grade carcinoma	LG + HG	Present	Present	Present	Lymphoid
Malhotra et al¹¹	AdCC-HGT	Malignant	Adenocarcinoma NOS, undifferentiated carcinoma	LG + HG	Present	Present	Present	Hemorrhagic
Johnykutty et al¹²	AcCC-HGT	Malignant	High-grade salivary gland neoplasm	LG + HG	Present	Present	Present	NS
Suzuki et al¹³	EMC-HGT	Malignant	NS	LG + HG	Present	Present	NS	NS
Jung et al¹⁴	SC-HGT	Malignant	NS	HG only	Present	Present	Present	Clear
Bhardwaj et al¹⁵	AdCC-HGT	Malignant	Poorly differentiated carcinoma	LG + HG	Present	Present	NS	Necrotic, myxoid matrix
Dutta et al¹⁶	AdCC-HGT	Malignant	Basaloid neoplasm, AdCC/basal cell adenocarcinoma	Presumably LG only	Absent	Absent	Present	NS
Pusztaszeri et al¹⁷	AdCC-HGT	Malignant	AdCC-HGT	LG + HG	Present	Present	NS	Histiocytic, lymphoid

Abbreviations: AcCC, acinic cell carcinoma; AdCC, adenoid cystic carcinoma; EMC, epithelial-myoepithelial carcinoma; HG, high-grade component; HGT, high-grade transformation; LG, low-grade component; NOS, not otherwise specified; NS, not stated; SC, secretory carcinoma.