Kimura Disease Presenting as Right Parotid Swelling and Neck Lymphadenopathy

Kimura disease is a rare chronic inflammatory disorder commonly affecting young males. We present a 35-year-old male who had right parotid region and neck swellings for two years. The patient underwent imaging studies, blood investigations, and fine-needle aspiration cytology diagnostic of the Kimur...

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Autores principales: Shivakumar, Madan, Gaur, Naveen Kumar, Balaji, Sharmila, Shaikh, Oseen, Kumbhar, Uday
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Allergy/Immunology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8530722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34707954
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18178
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author Shivakumar, Madan
Gaur, Naveen Kumar
Balaji, Sharmila
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Kumbhar, Uday
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description Kimura disease is a rare chronic inflammatory disorder commonly affecting young males. We present a 35-year-old male who had right parotid region and neck swellings for two years. The patient underwent imaging studies, blood investigations, and fine-needle aspiration cytology diagnostic of the Kimura disease. The patient was screened for the presence of renal disorder. However, there was no evidence of kidney involvement. The patient was started on oral steroid therapy and advised for further follow-up. 
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spelling pubmed-85307222021-10-26 Kimura Disease Presenting as Right Parotid Swelling and Neck Lymphadenopathy Shivakumar, Madan Gaur, Naveen Kumar Balaji, Sharmila Shaikh, Oseen Kumbhar, Uday Cureus Allergy/Immunology Kimura disease is a rare chronic inflammatory disorder commonly affecting young males. We present a 35-year-old male who had right parotid region and neck swellings for two years. The patient underwent imaging studies, blood investigations, and fine-needle aspiration cytology diagnostic of the Kimura disease. The patient was screened for the presence of renal disorder. However, there was no evidence of kidney involvement. The patient was started on oral steroid therapy and advised for further follow-up.  Cureus 2021-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8530722/ /pubmed/34707954 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18178 Text en Copyright © 2021, Shivakumar et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Shivakumar, Madan
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title Kimura Disease Presenting as Right Parotid Swelling and Neck Lymphadenopathy
title_full Kimura Disease Presenting as Right Parotid Swelling and Neck Lymphadenopathy
title_fullStr Kimura Disease Presenting as Right Parotid Swelling and Neck Lymphadenopathy
title_full_unstemmed Kimura Disease Presenting as Right Parotid Swelling and Neck Lymphadenopathy
title_short Kimura Disease Presenting as Right Parotid Swelling and Neck Lymphadenopathy
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topic Allergy/Immunology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8530722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34707954
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18178
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