Various laboratory findings are helpful in making a diagnosis of Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD); however, they are not specific. We found decreased serum alkaline phosphatase (SAP) activity in children with KFD. The levels of SAP fell in the acute phase and recovered during convalescence. We conclude that low SAP activity is a characteristic of KFD and may be an auxiliary diagnostic marker for ...

Kikuchi Fujimoto disease (KFD) is a rare, generally benign and self limited condition with an unknown etiology. There isn’t guideline for treatment of KFD, recommendations are based on clinical experience management typically supportive. However, sometimes more ominous course the may be experienced. Thus, patients severe disease, refractory symptoms recurrences, definite efficient options requi...

Gastric cancer (GC) is the second cause of cancer related death in the world and has a heterogenous geographic pattern of distribution (Vannella et al., 2012). Different factors have been proposed in the pathogenesis of GC including helicobacter pylori (HP) infection (Zheng et al., 2014), smoking (Zhong et al., 2012), diet (Lin et al., 2014) and family history (Mansour-Ghanaei et al., 2012). GC...

Background: Reported first in 1972, histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis, also known as Kikuchi- Fujimoto Disease (KFD), is an infrequent and selfrestricting disorder of lymph nodes, predominantly found the Southeast Asian region. The common presentation this disease a young individual presenting with painful cervical node enlargement. Due to disease's uncommon nature, it often misdiagnosed by...

Introduction: Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease or Kikuchi (KD) histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis is an uncommon more frequent in Asia. It diagnosed with lymph node histopathological findings.
 Objective: To perform a systematic review of Kikuchi’s cases and describe clinical manifestations associated etiology the Tunisian population.
 Methods: We conducted multicentric descriptive study c...

Satoru Kikuchi , Kazuyuki Saito , Masaharu Takahashi , Koichi Ito , and Hiroo Ikehira 4 1 Graduate School of Science and Technology, Chiba University 2 Research Center for Frontier Medical Engineering, Chiba University 3 Faculty of Engineering, Chiba University 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, [email protected] 4 National Institute of Radiological Sciences 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inag...

Electrons backscattered from crystals can show Kikuchi patterns: variations in intensity for different outgoing directions due to diffraction by the lattice. Here, we measure these effects as a function of their energy loss for 30 keV electrons backscattered from silicon. The change in diffraction contrast with energy loss depends strongly on the scattering geometry. At steep incidence on the s...