A rare case report: Kimura’s disease presenting as bilateral post auricular swellings in a young male
Autor: | Ch V Ramana Murthy, Fakeha Firdous, Y Ramaraju |
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Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Zdroj: | Scholars Journal of Medical Case Reports. 4:388-390 |
ISSN: | 2347-6559 2347-9507 |
DOI: | 10.21276/sjmcr.2016.4.6.8 |
Popis: | Kimura disease (KD) is a chronic inflammatory disorder with angiolymphatic proliferation, usually affecting young men of Asian race but is rare in other races. The disease is characterized by a triad of painless subcutaneous masses in head and neck region, blood and tissue eosinophilia and moderately elevated serum immunoglobulin E levels. |
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