Kimura disease: case report and brief review of literature

Kimura disease is a rare chronic inflammatory disorder of unknown cause, primarily seen in young Asian males. The disease is characterized by painless subcutaneous swelling, blood and tissue eosinophilia and raised IgE levels. Early diagnosis of Kimura’s disease may spare the patient from unnecessar...

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Autores principales: Dhingra, Harshi, Nagpal, Ruchi, Baliyan, Asif, Alva, Sathyavathi R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6510362/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31086850
http://dx.doi.org/10.15386/cjmed-1030
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author Dhingra, Harshi
Nagpal, Ruchi
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description Kimura disease is a rare chronic inflammatory disorder of unknown cause, primarily seen in young Asian males. The disease is characterized by painless subcutaneous swelling, blood and tissue eosinophilia and raised IgE levels. Early diagnosis of Kimura’s disease may spare the patient from unnecessary invasive diagnostic procedure. We describe a case of Kimura disease in a 14-year old male presenting with left submandibular swelling and also provide a brief review of the literature.
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spelling pubmed-65103622019-05-13 Kimura disease: case report and brief review of literature Dhingra, Harshi Nagpal, Ruchi Baliyan, Asif Alva, Sathyavathi R Med Pharm Rep Case Report Kimura disease is a rare chronic inflammatory disorder of unknown cause, primarily seen in young Asian males. The disease is characterized by painless subcutaneous swelling, blood and tissue eosinophilia and raised IgE levels. Early diagnosis of Kimura’s disease may spare the patient from unnecessary invasive diagnostic procedure. We describe a case of Kimura disease in a 14-year old male presenting with left submandibular swelling and also provide a brief review of the literature. Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy 2019-04 2019-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6510362/ /pubmed/31086850 http://dx.doi.org/10.15386/cjmed-1030 Text en This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6510362/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31086850
http://dx.doi.org/10.15386/cjmed-1030
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