title: Kimura's disease. Diagnosis by aspiration cytology.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To characterize the cytologic features of Kimura's disease and distinguish the differentiating features from those of other conditions with similar cytologic findings.
  
  
  METHODS
  In eight cases of Kimura's disease the cytologic features were correlated with the histologic findings.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The cytologic features included a polymorphous lymphoid population with an admixture of significant numbers of eosinophils, fragments of collagenous tissue, endothelial cells and occasional polykaryocytes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Various conditions, both benign and malignant, may mimic Kimura's disease clinically and on smears. These have to be ruled out before making a diagnosis of Kimura's disease. The cytologic features of Kimura's disease have to be interpreted in the appropriate clinical setting in order to make a correct preoperative diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Government Medical College, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: Archana H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Deshpande
authors.forename: Supreeta
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nayak
authors.forename: Maitreyee M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Munshi
authors.forename: Sudhakar K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Bobhate
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000796:Angiolymphoid Hyperplasia with Eosinophilia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged