Kimura Disease As A Rare Cause Of Lymphadenopathy: Case Report

Abstract

Kimura Disease (KD); is a very rare, benign, chronic inflammatory situation with an unknown etiology. KD, usually effects head and neck region of the body as clinically. In very rare cases, KD can be seen as painless subcutaneous nodules or masses in the oral mucosa or other superficial lymph nodes. Making a diagnose of KD must include laboratory evaluations, imaging techniques and ruling out the other causes of lymadenopathy and eosinophilia with pathological evaluations. In our case, progressively enlarging regional lymph nodes over the past 5-6 months, widespread body pruritus and eosinophilia were the presenting clinical symptoms and laboratory findings. We aimed to present our KD case which was differantially diagnosed, in the context of current literature.

Keywords

• lymphadenopathy
• eosinophilia
• kimura disease