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Multiple nontender subcutaneous masses in the head and neck region: Kimura's disease
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Multiple nontender subcutaneous masses in the head and neck region: Kimura's disease

Wan-Ting Yang and Kuo-Yang Tsai
Journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery, medicine, and pathology, Vol.27(2), pp.287-290
01/03/2015

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Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine Life Sciences & Biomedicine Science & Technology
Kimura's disease is a rare, chronic inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology, which is seen predominantly in East Asian male patients in the third decade of life. It is often presented as a clinical triad of slow-growing painless mass in the head and neck region with elevated IgE level and eosinophilia. We present such a case in a 32-year-old Taiwanese male, whose symptoms subsided with a course of high dose corticosteroids. As the etiology of Kimura's disease is unknown, the treatment varies from immunosuppressants to surgery. (C) 2014 Asian AOMS, ASOMP, JSOP, JSOMS, JSOM, and JAMI. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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