{"entity":{"id":"milan-system-salivary","kind":"term","name":"Milan System for Reporting Salivary Gland Cytopathology","aka":["Milan System","MSRSGC","Milan System for Reporting Salivary Gland Cytopathology"],"tldr":"The Milan System puts the result of a needle test on a salivary gland lump into one of six categories, each with its own risk of cancer and its own next step.","summary":"The Milan System for Reporting Salivary Gland Cytopathology was first published in 2018. It defines six diagnostic categories for fine-needle aspiration covering non-neoplastic, benign and malignant lesions, and pairs each with a risk of malignancy and a clinical or surgical management algorithm. The second edition, July 2023 (Rossi and colleagues, Cytopathology), refines the risks from systematic reviews and meta-analyses, adds salivary gland imaging and ancillary testing, and updates nomenclature.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"Rossi et al., Second edition of the Milan System for Reporting Salivary Gland Cytopathology (Cytopathology 2023)","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cyt.13331"}],"tags":[],"related":["core-needle-biopsy","who-cytopathology-reporting-systems"],"cancers":["salivary-gland"],"sections":[],"technologies":["thyroid-fna-molecular"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"category":"Pathology"},"route":"/terms/milan-system-salivary/","neighbours":{"term":[{"id":"bethesda-category","kind":"term","name":"Bethesda category (thyroid cytology)","route":"/terms/bethesda-category/"},{"id":"core-needle-biopsy","kind":"term","name":"Core needle biopsy and fine-needle aspiration (FNA)","route":"/terms/core-needle-biopsy/"},{"id":"who-cytopathology-reporting-systems","kind":"term","name":"WHO Reporting Systems for cytopathology","route":"/terms/who-cytopathology-reporting-systems/"}],"cancer":[{"id":"salivary-gland","kind":"cancer","name":"Salivary gland cancers","route":"/cancers/salivary-gland/"}],"technology":[{"id":"thyroid-fna-molecular","kind":"technology","name":"Thyroid nodule FNA, Bethesda cytology & molecular classifiers","route":"/technologies/thyroid-fna-molecular/"}]}}