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While surgical biopsy or resection has historically been the diagnostic mainstay for sinonasal (SN) tract lesions and tumors, cytologic sampling of primary lesions or metastases has proven to be an effective means of establishing the diagnosis and staging these lesions. In this chapter, cytology findings of different SN tract lesions are discussed.

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Allard, F.D., Stelow, E.B. (2023). Cytology of Sinonasal Tract Lesions/Tumors. In: Jain, D., Bishop, J.A. (eds) Atlas of Sinonasal Tract Pathology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7315-4_4

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