ALLMedicine™ Kimura Disease Center

Jan 8th, 2023 - Warthin tumor (WT) is a common benign salivary tumor of the parotid gland. Clinically, it occurs in men in their fifth to seventh decades who typically smoke cigarettes. WTs have been reported with different head and neck neoplasms and other saliv...

Sep 21st, 2022 - Kimura disease (KD) is a rare, chronic inflammatory disease characterized by painless subcutaneous nodules predominantly located in the head and neck regions. Orbital KD, which intrudes into the intraconal space and results in compressive optic ne...

Aug 10th, 2022 - Immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4)-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a systemic disease that involves the infiltration of IgG4-positive plasma cells in multiple organs. Kimura disease (KD) presents as subcutaneous masses on the head and neck, frequently accompan...

Jul 8th, 2022 - Kimura's disease (KD) is a systemic inflammatory condition characterized by lymphadenopathy and subcutaneous nodules in the head and neck region. The lesions have a distinctive histopathological pattern formed by follicular hyperplasia, eosinophil...

Jun 15th, 2022 - The authors describe a case of Kimura disease (KD) affecting the lacrimal gland, the ipsilateral periorbita, and the contralateral earlobe. The authors also review the literature for characteristics and outcomes of KD affecting the periorbita or e...

Sep 4th, 2020 - 300 IgG4-RD patients, 200 other autoimmune diseases, 60 IgG4-RD mimickers (pancreatic cancer, cholangiocarcinoma, vasculitis, lymphoproliferative diseases, inflammatory bowel disease, kimura disease) and 100 healthy controls were enrolled. Periphe...