title: Fine-needle aspiration cytology in Kimura's disease.
abstract: Three patients presenting with parotid, submandibular, and/or lymph node masses were subjected to fine-needle aspiration cytology. Smears showed dissociated and clustered endothelial cells, eosinophils, lymphocytes, and Warthin Finkeldey giant cells. In two cases a diagnosis of Kimura's disease was suggested from the FNA cytologic smears. In the third case the presence of mononucleate cells with prominent nucleoli led to a suspicion of Hodgkin's disease. Excision biopsy and histopathologic study established a diagnosis of Kimura's disease in all three cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jayaram
authors.forename: K B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Peh
mesh_terms: D000796:Angiolymphoid Hyperplasia with Eosinophilia / Q000473:pathology*; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000473:pathology; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004727:Endothelium / Q000473:pathology; D004804:Eosinophils / Q000473:pathology; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007073:Immunoglobulin E / Q000032:analysis; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000473:pathology; D010950:Plasma Cells / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D007073:Immunoglobulin E