Anaesthesiological implications of Kimura's disease: a case report.
BACKGROUND
Kimura's disease is a chronic inflammatory condition belonging to the angio-lymphatic proliferative group of disorders, usually affecting young men of Asian race, but is rare in Western countries. It is a benign but locally injurious disease, of unknown aetiology, whose classical clinical features are a tumour-like swelling, usually in the head and neck, with or without satellite lymphadenopathy, often accompanied by eosinophilia and elevated serum IgE.


METHODS
We report the case of a 33-year-old Caucasian woman with an atypical localization of Kimura's disease, discussing the anaesthesiological implications and reviewing the current literature on Kimura's disease.


CONCLUSIONS
The diagnosis of Kimura's disease can be difficult and misleading, and anaesthesiological precautions could be ignored. Patients with this disease are often evaluated for other disorders: unnecessary diagnostic tests and investigations, or even surgery, may be avoided by just being aware of Kimura's disease.
Sorbello
Massimiliano
M
Laudini
Alessandro
A
Morello
Gianluigi
G
Sidoti
Mirco Tindaro
MT
Maugeri
Jessica Giuseppina
JG
Giaquinta
Alessia
A
Tallarita
Tiziano
T
Corona
Daniela
D
Zerbo
Domenico
D
Cappellani
Alessandro
A
Veroux
Pierfrancesco
P
Parrinello
Laura
L
Veroux
Massimiliano
M