Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease: State of the art

Introduction: Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD), also called histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis, is a rare that occurs with swollen lymph nodes and associated fever. This in both children adults. Aim: The aim of our work was to review the literature remind family doctors, otolaryngologists, hematologists rheumatologists about this should be included differential diagnosis long-term cervical lymphadenopathy. Material methods: Current information on sought presented based published reputable magazines period 2007–2020 English. We searched for articles Medline, PubMed, Scopus databases. Results discussion: KFD found all over world, most often Asian population. etiology not entirely known, however, two causal theories are suspected, which discussed detail article. course mild usually disappears its own. A biopsy an involved node as standard diagnosis. treatment – nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and/or glucocorticosteroids were used. Conclusions: There few reports disease. lymphadenopathy If above-mentioned symptoms obvious, then rarer diseases, such KFD, included.