KIMURAS DISEASE-A CASE REPORT

A 24 year old female patient presented with multiple, painless swellings in the neck and axilla for 6 months. Routine investigations were inconclusive except elevated eosinophilic count. Clinically it appeared to be lymphoma. Fine needle aspiration cytology was reported to be a reactive hyperplasia while excision biopsy of the cervical lymph node revealed the diagnosis as Kimuras disease. This disorder should be suspected when painless cervical adenopathy, hypereosinophilia and hyper-IgE is present, particularly in male Asian patients.