Kimura’s disease is a rare chronic affection of unknown etiology, endemic in the far east with net male predominance. We present case 37-year-old female patient who developed tumor process left parotid region over period 3 years. A total parotidectomy was performed simple postoperative course. The anatomopathological study surgical specimen favor disease. Through this and review literature, we ...

Kimura's disease is a rare inflammatory disorder of unknown cause, primarily seen in young Asian males. The disease is characterized by a triad of painless subcutaneous masses in the head or neck region, blood and tissue eosinophilia, and markedly elevated serum immunoglobulin E levels. We describe an 11-year-old Asian boy with Kimura's disease who presented with a chronic left neck mass. The d...

Eosinophilic cystitis is a rare inflammatory disease of the bladder which origin and pathogenesis are unknown. Since the first description in 1960, hundreds of cases have been reported, 20 Pseudotumor forms. We report a case of cystitis eosinophils in tumor-form, a patient of 72 years without urological or allergic history. The patient was treated with endoscopic resection alone. The outcome wa...

In this note we cast parametrization of certain type of covariance extension problems in polynomial model. We show that the Kimura form of state space realization for maximum entropy solution to Carathéodory’s extension problem is Riccati balanced parametrization. As an application we provide a heuristic algorithm for finding solutions to minimum-phase spectral factor with poles and zeros, give...

The second thiamine-decomposing bacterium, discovered by Kimura et al. (1, 2) was named by the Vitamin B Research Committee Bacillus aneurino lyticus Kimura et Aoyama (BKA) (3). By studying the properties of the enzyme produced by this bacillus, it was found that the action mechanism of the enzyme is completely different from that of Bacillus thiaminolyticus Matsukawa et Misawa (BMM), shell-fis...

Takeshi Kimura, MD; Takeshi Morimoto, MD; Masahiro Natsuaki, MD; Hiroki Shiomi, MD; Keiichi Igarashi, MD; Kazushige Kadota, MD; Kengo Tanabe, MD; Yoshihiro Morino, MD; Takashi Akasaka, MD; Yoshiki Takatsu, MD; Hideo Nishikawa, MD; Yoshito Yamamoto, MD; Yoshihisa Nakagawa, MD; Yasuhiko Hayashi, MD; Masashi Iwabuchi, MD; Hisashi Umeda, MD; Kazuya Kawai, MD; Hisayuki Okada, MD; Kazuo Kimura, MD; C...

INTRODUCTION Kimura's disease is a rare, chronic inflammatory disorder of unknown cause, mainly seen in young Asian men. To our knowledge it has not been reported previously in persons from the Balkan countries. CASE REPORT We presented a 15-year-old male with Kimura's disease manifested as chronic left neck mass. The diagnosis was based on the histopathological findings of the excised lesion...

A model which is a mixture of the model of infinite alleles and the Ohta-Kimura model of stepwise mutation has been proposed for the study of eletcrophoretic variants in natural populations. Mutations which alter the mobility of a protein are divided into two classes: stepwise mutations and nonstepwise mutations. It is assumed that stepwise mutations follow the Ohta-Kimura model while nonstepwi...

In this note, we characterize the embeddability of generic Kimura 3ST Markov matrices in terms of their eigenvalues. As a consequence, we are able to compute the volume of such matrices relative to the volume of all Markov matrices within the model. We also provide examples showing that, in general, mutation rates are not identifiable from substitution probabilities. These examples also illustr...