Affiliations 

  • 1 Hospital Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah
  • 2 Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan
Medical Journal of Malaysia, 2014;69(4):199-201.
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Abstract

Kimura’s disease (KD) was firstly described in a Chinese literature in 1937, 1 and its histological description was produced by Kimura et al in 1948 which has given its name2. It is a disease of chronic eosinophilic inflammation, probably immune-driven, with angioplasty proliferation. The aetiology is unknown. Typically, the disease occurs as a tumour-like nodule in subcutaneous tissue of head and neck, antecubital fossa, inguinal region or parotid gland.3 It often accompanied by regional lymphadenopathy, raised serum eosinophil counts, and markedly elevated serum immunoglobulin E levels 3.