**3.4 Category IV**

This category is classified into**:**

**Category IVA: Benign Neoplasm –** FNAC specimens showing characteristic cytomorphological features of a benign epithelial neoplasm.

**Category IVB: Salivary Gland Neoplasm of Uncertain Malignant Potential (SUMP) –** This category is most challenging as it includes FNAC specimens that have diagnostic feature of a neoplasm however, the possibility of malignant neoplasm cannot be excluded.

### **3.5 Category V: suspicious of malignancy**

FNAC specimens that have some but not all the criteria for a specific diagnosis of malignancy and yet the overall cytologic features are sugsgestive of malignancy.

#### **3.6 Category: VI malignant**

FNAC specimens that are diagnostic of malignancy. The tumours of intraoral SGs with frank features of malignancy are included in this category.
