[Kimura disease. Apropos of a case with review of the literature].

Kimura's disease is an uncommon chronic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology often associated with an important category of reactive lymphadenopathy in Oriental populations. The enlarged nodes are mostly located in the head and neck region. The main pathologic changes in the lymph nodes include florid germinal centers, Warthin-Finkeldey polykaryocytes, vascularization of the germinal centers, increased postcapillary veinules in the paracortex, eosinophilic infiltration and fibrosis. The disease is often confused with angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia. Because the adenopathy may be the sole presentation of the disease, the accurate diagnosis may spare the patients unnecessary medical and/or surgical treatment. We report a case of cervical lymphadenopathy as a sole presentation of Kimura's disease.