Haemophagocytic syndrome and histiocytic necrotising lymphadenitis (Kikuchi's disease)
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Histiocytic Necrotising Lymphadenitis
s: Background: Kikuchi’s disease is a rare, benign, self-limiting disease, mainly involving the lymph nodes of young people. The disease has unknown etiology. Clinical symptoms and basic investigations in a patient often leads to a misdiagnosis, due to similar findings in other lesions like, lymphomas and chronic granulomatous inflammations of lymph nodes like tuberculosis. Lymph node biopsy sh...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.53.8.636