Acinic cell carcinoma screening

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Ramyar Ghandriz MD [2]

Overview

Screening is not recomended for acinic cell carcinoma.

Screening

Screening is not recommended for acidic cell carcinoma as diagnosis is based on clinical findings.
Once diagnosis confirmed, ultrasonography, nuclear scans, CT scan and MRI can usually conduct for assessing the size of the tumor, location, and the nature of the tumor.^[1]

References

↑ Al-Zaher, Nabil; Obeid, Amani; Al-Salam, Suhail; Al-Kayyali, Bassam Sulaiman (2009). “Acinic cell carcinoma of the salivary glands: A literature review”. Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Therapy. 2 (1): 259–264. doi:10.1016/S1658-3876(09)50035-0. ISSN 1658-3876.

Overview