A rare cause of cervical lymphadenopathy: Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease
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Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease: a rare cause of cervical lymphadenopathy.
Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease (KFD) is a self-limiting, necrotizing, histiocytic lymphadenitis (NHL) of unknown etiopathogenesis. So far in Nepal not a single case of this disease in the cervical region leading to progressive inspiratory stridor has been reported till date. Here a case of 26 years old Nepalese house wife suffering from this disease, which is histopathologically proved as KFD with co...
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عنوان ژورنال: Otolaryngology Case Reports
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2468-5488
DOI: 10.1016/j.xocr.2021.100275