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The clinical symptoms are mainly painless subcutaneous soft tissue masses, often involving head and neck lymph nodes and salivary glands, and are mainly characterized by diffuse eosinophilic infiltration, lymphocyte, and vascular proliferation. There are few reports in the literature that KD affects only inguinal lymph nodes. We report in this study a 41-year-old male patient who presented to the hospital for medical help with soft tissue masses in the groin. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed multiple abnormal soft tissue nodules around the iliac vessels in the left groin, and a contrast-enhanced scan showed obvious homogeneous enhancement. Diffusion-weighted imaging showed limited movement of water molecules and showed an obvious high signal. Fluoro18-labeled deoxyglucose positron emission tomography\/computed tomography (<jats:sup>18<\/jats:sup>F-FDG PET\/CT) was recommended for further evaluation of the patient\u2019s general condition, and the results showed that except for the radioactive uptake in the lesions in the left groin region, no obvious abnormality was found in the rest of the body. Based on these imaging findings, the patient was first suspected to have malignant lesions, and then the patient underwent histopathological examination, which was confirmed to be KD. 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