Dyspnea and Cough: A Rare Report of the Kimura Disease

Endocr Metab Immune Disord Drug Targets. 2020;20(6):963-966. doi: 10.2174/1871530320666200305130935.

Abstract

Background: Known as a rare disease, Kimura disease is a chronic, allergic and inflammatory process. It may overlap other allergic conditions, as well.

Case presentation: This study is going to present a 36-year-old woman, with cough, dyspnea and bone pain. Other differential diagnoses were excluded during the investigations. The definite diagnosis was made by excisional biopsy and pathological investigations.

Conclusion: This was a rare medical condition with remarkable diagnostic challenge.

Keywords: Kimura disease; dyspnea; eosinophilia; eosinophilic hyperplasia lymphogranuloma; immunoglobulin E; lymphadenopathy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Chronic Pain / diagnosis
  • Chronic Pain / etiology
  • Cough / diagnosis*
  • Cough / etiology
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Dyspnea / diagnosis*
  • Dyspnea / etiology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Kimura Disease / complications
  • Kimura Disease / diagnosis*