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Histological examination confirmed Kimura disease of the eyelid in a 50-year-old Indian man, marking the first reported case of this condition involving the eyelid in a person of Indian origin.
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This represents the first reported case of Kimura disease involving the eyelid in a person of Indian origin.
Supports inclusion of Kimura disease in the differential for eyelid lesions in Indian patients; extends ethnic spectrum but remains hypothesis-generating.
Kimura disease is a rare idiopathic chronic inflammatory disease, characterized by subcutaneous nodular lesions in the head and neck area. Ophthalmic manifestation of Kimura disease involves orbital and eyelid lesions mostly in Asian patients, but it has been described in White patients and Black Caribbean patients. Kimura disease is usually associated with eosinophilia and occasionally with renal disease. Here, we report a case of Kimura disease of the eyelid in a 50-year-old Indian man with eosinophilia. The main differential diagnosis was angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia. Histology is crucial to separate these two entities, and our case was shown to be Kimura disease by histology. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a person of Indian origin to develop Kimura disease involving the eyelid.
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Lee et al. (2009) conducted a case report in Kimura disease (n=1). Histological examination confirmed Kimura disease of the eyelid in a 50-year-old Indian man, marking the first reported case of this condition involving the eyelid in a person of Indian origin.
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