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Kimura’s disease of the elbows

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Kimura’s disease rarely involves a location outside the head and neck. We report a case of Kimura’s disease in a young Asian man involving both elbows. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a soft-tissue mass of irregularly infiltrative strands in the subcutaneous fat accompanied with medial epitrochlear lymphadenopathy. The MRI appearance is described and the entity is briefly reviewed.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center: 325, Section 2, Cheng-Kung Road, Neihu 114, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Guo-Shu Huang, Ying-Chun Chiu & Cheng-Yu Chen

  2. Department of Pathology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center: 325, Section 2, Cheng-Kung Road, Neihu 114, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Herng-Sheng Lee

  3. Department of Plastic Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center: 325, Section 2, Cheng-Kung Road, Neihu 114, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Chien-Chih Yu

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Huang, GS., Lee, HS., Chiu, YC. et al. Kimura’s disease of the elbows. Skeletal Radiol 34, 555–558 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00256-005-0905-z

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