I had about 10 FNAB. Sometimes I received preliminary results from the pathologist when looking under the microscope, good and bad findings, sometimes some don't say, but in ALL cases, the sample was sent out for further pathology, which comes back in 10 days, although probably sooner by my dated pathology reports I obtain.

There are three major salivary glands, parotid, submandibular, and sublingual and hundreds of minor salivary glands in the mouth, and throat. Maybe see or ask if the submandibular gland was removed or not. Mine weren't in my neck dissections, level ll-V, but could have if level l was resected, which is usually involved in oral cases, not oropharyngeal.

Good luck with the results.