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Williams G, Neblett C, Arscott J, et al. Kimura disease: a rare cause of a recurrent cheek mass in a Jamaican man. J Surg Case Rep. 2021;2021(4):rjab100doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjab100.
Williams, G., Neblett, C., Arscott, J., McLean, S., Warren, S., & Blake, G. (2021). Kimura disease: a rare cause of a recurrent cheek mass in a Jamaican man. Journal of surgical case reports, 2021(4), rjab100. https://doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjab100
Williams, Geoffrey, et al. "Kimura disease: a rare cause of a recurrent cheek mass in a Jamaican man." Journal of surgical case reports vol. 2021,4 (2021): rjab100. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjab100
Williams G, Neblett C, Arscott J, McLean S, Warren S, Blake G. Kimura disease: a rare cause of a recurrent cheek mass in a Jamaican man. J Surg Case Rep. 2021 Apr 20;2021(4):rjab100. doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjab100. eCollection 2021 Apr. PMID: 33927850; PMCID: PMC8057133.
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J Surg Case Rep. 2021 Apr 20;2021(4):rjab100. doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjab100. eCollection 2021 Apr.

Kimura disease: a rare cause of a recurrent cheek mass in a Jamaican man.

Journal of surgical case reports

Geoffrey Williams, Carlos Neblett, Jade Arscott, Sheena McLean, Shereika Warren, Garfield Blake

Affiliations

  1. Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Cornwall Regional Hospital, Montego Bay, Jamaica.
  2. Department of Pathology, Cornwall Regional Hospital, Montego Bay, Jamaica.

PMID: 33927850 PMCID: PMC8057133 DOI: 10.1093/jscr/rjab100

Abstract

Kimura disease (KD) is a chronic, inflammatory, benign disorder endemic to Asia that typically manifests as a triad of painless masses in the head and neck region, elevated eosinophils and serum immunoglobulin. It usually affects young men in their second and third decades of life and is rarely seen outside of the orient. This is a report of a case of KD in a young man of African descent who presented with a cheek mass. KD was not included in our differential diagnosis, and this report highlights the need to consider this entity, which can be easily missed due to its rarity in the Western world. There is no cure for the disease, and management includes medical and surgical modalities, but local recurrence or relapse is not uncommon.

Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. © The Author(s) 2021.

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