All issues > Volume 27(10); 1984

Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1984;27(10):1028-1032. Published online October 31, 1984.

A Case of Kimura's Disease.

Hye Kyung Cho¹, Hae Lyung Chung¹, Jong Hoon Park¹, Dong Hyuck Kum¹, Myung Sook Kim²

¹Department of Pediatrics, Korea General Hospital, Seoul, Korea
²Department of Pathology, Korea General Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

The 12 year-old male patient was suffered from painless diffuse swelling with multiple subcutaneous nodules on both submandibular area for about 2 months. Marked eosinophilia and leukocytosis were noted in routine laboratory test. On the excisional biopsy of subcutaneous nodular lesion, there were diffuse proliferation of small vessels, lymphoid follicle formation and diffuse infiltration of lymphocytes, histiocytes and eosinophils. It was the characteristics of Kimura's disease. Therefore the literature was reviewed and a case was presented.

Keywords :Kimura's Disease; Eosinophilia; Subcutaneous nodules