Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia should not be confused with Kimura's disease.
OBJECTIVE
To emphasize the differences between angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia (ALHE) and Kimura's disease (KD), two entities often confused in the ophthalmic literature.


METHODS
Case report of a subcutaneous mass in the periocular region of a 45-year old woman and a MEDLINE review of the ophthalmic and non-ophthalmic literature on ALHE and KD.


RESULTS
The clinical and histopathological findings of the present case were consistent with ALHE, but not with KD. A survey of the current ophthalmic literature indicates that these two designations are still often used synonymously, despite that non-ophthalmic papers now separate ALHE from KD.


CONCLUSIONS
The clinical and histopathological features of ALHE are most often distinctly different from KD and these entities should be clearly separated in the ophthalmic literature.
Seregard
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St. Erik's Eye Hospital and Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
D000796:Angiolymphoid Hyperplasia with Eosinophilia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005138:Eyebrows / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged