Asian Journal of Case Reports in Surgery

Inguinal Lymphadenopathy in a Patient with Kimura Disease: A Rare Presentation of a Rare Disease

Tapan Patel *

Department of General Surgery, Baroda Medical College, India.

Shivani Patel

Department of General Surgery, Baroda Medical College, India.

Doliya Tejas

Department of General Surgery, Baroda Medical College, India.

Hemin Patel

Department of General Surgery, Baroda Medical College, India.

*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

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Abstract

Kimura disease is an extremely rare idiopathic condition. It is a chronic inflammatory disorder typically seen in Asian males in younger age groups. Its classical features include painless lymphadenopathy or subcutaneous swelling usually in head and neck, eosinophilia and raised levels of IgE.  However, our case is of a 45 year old male who presented with right sided inguinal swelling with diagnostic dilemma that was later diagnosed as Kimura disease after invasive histopathological analysis. Here, we have described this case to shed some light on possibility of such presentation of this rare disease.

Keywords: Kimura disease, rare disease, surgery, lymphadenopathy, renal involvement, histopathology

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