Kimura Disease : Treatment

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Kimura disease pursues a chronic but benign course. Treatment modalities that have worked include surgery, steroid therapy, and radiation.

Since Kimura disease often mimics a neoplasm clinically, an excisional biopsy is usually performed as a diagnostic and/or therapeutic procedure. Low-dose steroids can reduce the size of enlarged lymph nodes but the lesions often recur following withdrawl of steroid therapy. Radiation therapy is offered to patients that don't respond to surgery or oral steroids.

The image shows dense eosinophilic infiltrate in a lymph node involved by Kimura disease.