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
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.
Databáze: OpenAIRE