FINE-NEEDLE ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY IN KIMURAS-DISEASE

Three patients presenting with parotid, submandibular, and/or lymph no de masses were subjected refine-needle aspiration cytology. Smears sho wed dissociated and clustered endothelial cells, eosinophils, lymphocy tes, and Warthin Finkeldey giant cells. In two cases a diagnosis of Ki mura's disease was suggested from the FNA cytologic smears. In the thi rd case the presence of mononucleate cells with prominent nucleoli led to a suspicion of Hodgkin's disease. Excision biopsy and histopatholo gic study established a diagnosis of Kimura's disease in all three cas es. (C) 1995 Wiley-Liss, Inc.