Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease Mimicking Tuberculosis
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Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease Mimicking Tuberculosis
A 32-year-old woman presented with a fever and cervical lymphadenopathies. The research for Mycobacterium tuberculosis was negative. Tuberculin skin test was positive. Laboratory investigations showed an elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate and a normal white blood cell count. Bacteriological and viral investigations were negative. Quantiferon-Tb Gold test was indeterminate. Thraco-abdominal...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Clinical Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2158-284X,2158-2882
DOI: 10.4236/ijcm.2015.610096