AlGhamdi Fares E, Al-Khatib Talal A, Marzouki Hani Z, AlGarni Mohammed A
Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head Neck Surgery, King Abdullah Medical City, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail.
Saudi Med J. 2016 Mar;37(3):315-9. doi: 10.15537/smj.2016.3.14448.
Kimura disease is a chronic inflammatory disease that mainly manifests as a lump in the cervical region. Although the underlying pathophysiology is not clear yet, the diagnosis can be established based on specific histopathological characteristics. The first case of this disease was described in China, as well as the majority of subsequent cases that were also described in the Far East countries made Kimura disease traditionally a disease of adult patients of Asian descent. This report describes the occurrence of Kimura disease in pediatric non-Asian patient with a similar clinicopathologic presentation.
木村病是一种慢性炎症性疾病,主要表现为颈部肿块。尽管其潜在的病理生理学尚不清楚,但可根据特定的组织病理学特征进行诊断。该疾病的首例病例在中国被描述,随后大多数病例也在远东国家被描述,这使得木村病传统上被认为是亚洲裔成年患者的疾病。本报告描述了一名非亚洲裔儿科患者出现具有相似临床病理表现的木村病。