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Kimura disease: A rare cause of painless lymphadenopathy in South Asia

Kimura disease is an uncommon disease entity that typically involves the lymph nodes predominantly in the head and neck region together with frequent involvement of salivary glands. Very few cases of it have been reported in literature globally, and in the context of India, it is even rare. Early su...

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Autores principales: Rijal, Prabhat, Banjade, Madhav, Kumar, Nirmal, Raina, Rohit, Pathania, Monika, Kant, Ravi
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10259547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37312764
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1638_22
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author Rijal, Prabhat
Banjade, Madhav
Kumar, Nirmal
Raina, Rohit
Pathania, Monika
Kant, Ravi
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description Kimura disease is an uncommon disease entity that typically involves the lymph nodes predominantly in the head and neck region together with frequent involvement of salivary glands. Very few cases of it have been reported in literature globally, and in the context of India, it is even rare. Early suspicion of Kimura disease may prevent the patient from unnecessary invasive diagnostic tests. We present a case scenario of a 35 years old female, from a hilly area who presented with painless neck swelling for 3 months that was followed by fever, new onset pain at the site of neck swelling, and skin rashes. Diagnosis of Kimura disease was made based on histopathological findings aided by peripheral eosinophilia and elevated serum Immunoglobulin E (IgE) levels. Following the diagnosis, the patient was treated with a short course of oral steroids which produced an excellent response with a consequent decrease in the size of lymph nodes and resolution of the skin rashes.
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spelling pubmed-102595472023-06-13 Kimura disease: A rare cause of painless lymphadenopathy in South Asia Rijal, Prabhat Banjade, Madhav Kumar, Nirmal Raina, Rohit Pathania, Monika Kant, Ravi J Family Med Prim Care Case Report Kimura disease is an uncommon disease entity that typically involves the lymph nodes predominantly in the head and neck region together with frequent involvement of salivary glands. Very few cases of it have been reported in literature globally, and in the context of India, it is even rare. Early suspicion of Kimura disease may prevent the patient from unnecessary invasive diagnostic tests. We present a case scenario of a 35 years old female, from a hilly area who presented with painless neck swelling for 3 months that was followed by fever, new onset pain at the site of neck swelling, and skin rashes. Diagnosis of Kimura disease was made based on histopathological findings aided by peripheral eosinophilia and elevated serum Immunoglobulin E (IgE) levels. Following the diagnosis, the patient was treated with a short course of oral steroids which produced an excellent response with a consequent decrease in the size of lymph nodes and resolution of the skin rashes. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023-04 2023-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10259547/ /pubmed/37312764 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1638_22 Text en Copyright: © 2023 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Raina, Rohit
Pathania, Monika
Kant, Ravi
Kimura disease: A rare cause of painless lymphadenopathy in South Asia
title Kimura disease: A rare cause of painless lymphadenopathy in South Asia
title_full Kimura disease: A rare cause of painless lymphadenopathy in South Asia
title_fullStr Kimura disease: A rare cause of painless lymphadenopathy in South Asia
title_full_unstemmed Kimura disease: A rare cause of painless lymphadenopathy in South Asia
title_short Kimura disease: A rare cause of painless lymphadenopathy in South Asia
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topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10259547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37312764
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1638_22
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