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Kimura disease: No age or ethnicity limit

Kimura disease is a chronic inflammatory disease that mainly manifests as a lump in the cervical region. Although the underlying pathophysiology is not clear yet, the diagnosis can be established based on specific histopathological characteristics. The first case of this disease was described in Chi...

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Autores principales: AlGhamdi, Fares E., Al-Khatib, Talal A., Marzouki, Hani Z., AlGarni, Mohammed A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Saudi Medical Journal 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4800898/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26905356
http://dx.doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.3.14448
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author AlGhamdi, Fares E.
Al-Khatib, Talal A.
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description Kimura disease is a chronic inflammatory disease that mainly manifests as a lump in the cervical region. Although the underlying pathophysiology is not clear yet, the diagnosis can be established based on specific histopathological characteristics. The first case of this disease was described in China, as well as the majority of subsequent cases that were also described in the Far East countries made Kimura disease traditionally a disease of adult patients of Asian descent. This report describes the occurrence of Kimura disease in pediatric non-Asian patient with a similar clinicopathologic presentation.
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spelling pubmed-48008982016-04-01 Kimura disease: No age or ethnicity limit AlGhamdi, Fares E. Al-Khatib, Talal A. Marzouki, Hani Z. AlGarni, Mohammed A Saudi Med J Case Report Kimura disease is a chronic inflammatory disease that mainly manifests as a lump in the cervical region. Although the underlying pathophysiology is not clear yet, the diagnosis can be established based on specific histopathological characteristics. The first case of this disease was described in China, as well as the majority of subsequent cases that were also described in the Far East countries made Kimura disease traditionally a disease of adult patients of Asian descent. This report describes the occurrence of Kimura disease in pediatric non-Asian patient with a similar clinicopathologic presentation. Saudi Medical Journal 2016-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4800898/ /pubmed/26905356 http://dx.doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.3.14448 Text en Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Kimura disease: No age or ethnicity limit
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title_short Kimura disease: No age or ethnicity limit
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4800898/
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