Kimura disease

Kimura disease

Kimura disease is a benign rare chronic inflammatory disorder. Its primary symptoms are subdermal lesions in the head or neck or painless unilateral inflammation of cervical lymph nodes.cite web |url=http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic212.htm |title=Kimura Disease |accessdate=2008-07-20 |publisher=eMedicine |author=Sena Lee |year=2007 |month=May]

History

The first known report of Kimura disease was from China in 1937, when Kimm and Szeto identified seven cases of the condition.cite journal |title=Eosinophilic hyperplastic lymphogranuloma, comparison with Mikulicz's disease |pages=p. 329 |author=Kimm HT, Szeto C |journal=Proc Chin Med Soc |year=1937] It first received its name when Kimura and others noted a change in the surrounding blood vessels and referred to it as "unusual granulation combined with hyperplastic changes in lymphoid tissue."cite journal |title=On the unusual granulation combined with hyperplastic changes of lymphatic tissues |pages=pp. 179–180 |author=Kimura T, Yoshimura S, Ishikawa E |journal=Trans Soc Pathol Jpn |year=1948]

Cause

The cause of Kimura disease remains unknown.

References


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