Remission of Kimura Disease With Carotid Hypervascularization After Cyclosporine Treatment

Remission of secondary membranous nephropathy in a patient with Kimura disease after surgical resection

Kimura disease (KD) is an eosinophilic, granulomatous, benign, chronic inflammatory disease with an unknown etiology. A 33-year-old woman visited our hospital because of a palpable, left subclavian mass, a left scapulo-anterior pseudoaneurysm, and nephrotic syndrome. Her subclavian lymph node biopsy examination result was consistent with KD, and results of a renal biopsy indicated secondary mem...

Treatment of Kimura disease with mycophenolate mofetil monotherapy

ALHE: angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia KD: Kimura disease MMF: mycophenolate mofetil INTRODUCTION Kimura disease (KD) is a rare idiopathic condition that presents as solitary or multiple painless subcutaneous masses in the head and neck region. It may also involve extracutaneous sites, such as regional lymph nodes, major salivary glands, and the kidneys. Most cases reported occurred ...

CT of Kimura disease.

Kimura is credited with first describing a condition-eosinophilic granuloma of the soft tissue-that subsequently has been given his name. Since then, more than 500 cases have been reported in review series, mainly in the Chinese and Japanese literature [1]. The disease occurs only in Orientals, and more than 80% of these patients are male. Presentation may occur over a wide age range, but it is...

Remission of Grave's disease after oral anti-thyroid drug treatment.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate remission rate of anti-thyroid drug treatment in patients with Grave's disease, and to study the factors associated with remission. STUDY DESIGN A cross sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY The Endocrine Department of the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi from 1999 to 2000. METHODOLOGY Seventy four patients of Grave's disease were recruited who were presc...

Kimura Disease and Angiolymphoid