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 lym...

A 19-year-old Aboriginal woman presented with a three-week history of swollen neck glands, nausea, vomiting, chills and weight loss. On examination, she had bilateral, nontender, diffuse cervical lymphadenopathy. Oral examination revealed extensive dental caries and periodontal disease. The results of her laboratory workup are shown in Table 1. Both a lymph node aspiration and a bone marrow bio...

Persistent cervical and axillary lymphadenopathy is a common occurrence encountered in clinics across Asian countries. The commonest presentation in young population is secondary to infections of which extrapulmonary tuberculosis tops the list. Occasionally, one encounters neoplastic lesions such as lymphomas.1 In adults, these aberrant swelling warrant exclusion of metastatic malignant disease...

We analyze a reweighted version of the Kikuchi approximation for estimating the log partition function of a product distribution defined over a region graph. We establish sufficient conditions for the concavity of our reweighted objective function in terms of weight assignments in the Kikuchi expansion, and show that a reweighted version of the sum product algorithm applied to the Kikuchi regio...