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SUBMITTER: Aziz A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6173965 | biostudies-other | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Aziz A A Mohamad I I Zawawi N N
Malaysian family physician : the official journal of the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia 20180831 2
Kimura disease presents as benign lesion and is commonly present among the Asian population. It is a disease with a favourable prognosis and a peak age of onset in the third decade. It is a chronic inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology that involves the lymph nodes and subcutaneous tissues of the head and neck region. We report a case of a 15-year-old boy with multiple Kimura lymphadenopathies involving the left posterior auricular region as well as the anterior and posterior triangles of th ...[more]