Kimura's Disease—A Rare Cause of Postauricular Swelling: A Case Report from the Hilly Region

Kimura's disease (KD) is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the lymph node which is very rare in the Indian population. A 34-year-old female presented with left postauricular region swelling for the past 3 years at an outpatient department. On histopathological examination, it was diagnosed as...

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Autores principales: Guleria, Trilok C., Singh, Mahender, Singh, Vishal, Azad, Ramesh K., Mohindroo, Narender K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2022
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8763460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35059498
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1742179
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author Guleria, Trilok C.
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description Kimura's disease (KD) is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the lymph node which is very rare in the Indian population. A 34-year-old female presented with left postauricular region swelling for the past 3 years at an outpatient department. On histopathological examination, it was diagnosed as KD. It should be kept in mind when treating a patient with lymphadenopathy and eosinophilia or a high immunoglobulin E level. This unique case report highlights this impressive clinical entity.
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spelling pubmed-87634602022-01-19 Kimura's Disease—A Rare Cause of Postauricular Swelling: A Case Report from the Hilly Region Guleria, Trilok C. Singh, Mahender Singh, Vishal Azad, Ramesh K. Mohindroo, Narender K. Surg J (N Y) Kimura's disease (KD) is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the lymph node which is very rare in the Indian population. A 34-year-old female presented with left postauricular region swelling for the past 3 years at an outpatient department. On histopathological examination, it was diagnosed as KD. It should be kept in mind when treating a patient with lymphadenopathy and eosinophilia or a high immunoglobulin E level. This unique case report highlights this impressive clinical entity. Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2022-01-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8763460/ /pubmed/35059498 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1742179 Text en The Author(s). This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, permitting unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction so long as the original work is properly cited. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 work is properly cited.
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Kimura's Disease—A Rare Cause of Postauricular Swelling: A Case Report from the Hilly Region
title Kimura's Disease—A Rare Cause of Postauricular Swelling: A Case Report from the Hilly Region
title_full Kimura's Disease—A Rare Cause of Postauricular Swelling: A Case Report from the Hilly Region
title_fullStr Kimura's Disease—A Rare Cause of Postauricular Swelling: A Case Report from the Hilly Region
title_full_unstemmed Kimura's Disease—A Rare Cause of Postauricular Swelling: A Case Report from the Hilly Region
title_short Kimura's Disease—A Rare Cause of Postauricular Swelling: A Case Report from the Hilly Region
title_sort kimura's disease—a rare cause of postauricular swelling: a case report from the hilly region
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8763460/
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