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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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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. Marzouki, Hani Z. AlGarni, Mohammed A |
author_facet | AlGhamdi, Fares E. Al-Khatib, Talal A. Marzouki, Hani Z. AlGarni, Mohammed 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. |
spellingShingle | Case Report AlGhamdi, Fares E. Al-Khatib, Talal A. Marzouki, Hani Z. AlGarni, Mohammed A Kimura disease: No age or ethnicity limit |
title | Kimura disease: No age or ethnicity limit |
title_full | Kimura disease: No age or ethnicity limit |
title_fullStr | Kimura disease: No age or ethnicity limit |
title_full_unstemmed | Kimura disease: No age or ethnicity limit |
title_short | Kimura disease: No age or ethnicity limit |
title_sort | kimura disease: no age or ethnicity limit |
topic | Case Report |
url | 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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