Kimura disease

Kimura disease, also known as eosinophilic hyperplastic lymphogranuloma, is relatively rare clinically. In 1937, Kimm (金 显 宅) and Szeto reported 7 cases of eosinophilic granuloma at the annual meeting of the Chinese Medical Association; thereafter, in 1948, a Japanese scholar Kimura (Kimura) and others published a title entitled "On "Unusual granuloma with lymphoid tissue hyperplasia", which later referred to this pathological state as Kimura disease (Kimura disease). The name of this disease has been more confusing, such as "similar to chronic granulomatosis with eosinophilia", "soft tissue eosinophilic granulomatosis", "eosinophilic lymphoid follicular disease", "skin eosinophilic lymphoid follicle", "Eosinophilic granuloma of lymph nodes and soft tissue", "Eosinophilic lymphoblastic granuloma" and other disease names. At present, the domestic standard name is "eosinophilic lymphoblastic granuloma", while the western and Japanese literature mainly uses "KD". The disease is rare, and only 300 cases have been reported so far, mainly in the literature of oral, skin, lens surgery, and radiotherapy.

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