Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease is characterized by fever and lymphadenopathy, usually localized in the cervical region. This disease principally affects young females. It can be confused with lymphoma, adenocarcinoma metastasis and tuberculosis. We report two cases of KikuchiFujimoto disease. In the first case, a 28-year-old female had been treated for tuberculosis one year prior and presented with a...

BACKGROUND Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease is a benign and self-limited disease, first reported in Japan in 1972. The characteristic features of this disorder include lymphadenopathy and fever. OBJECTIVES To summarize our experience with Kikuchi disease with regard to clinical manifestations and outcome. METHODS The patients included in the study were those diagnosed with Kikuchi disease during th...

BACKGROUND Kikuchi Fujimoto disease is an uncommon benign condition of necrotizing histiocytic lymphadenitis commonly seen in East Asian and Japanese populations. It commonly presents with fever, cervical lymphadenopathy, and elevated inflammatory markers. Diagnosis of Kikuchi Fujimoto disease is based on histopathological studies of the involved lymph nodes. The presentation of Kikuchi Fujimot...

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...

A 27-year old woman presented with fever, weight loss, arthralgia, macular skin rash and bilateral axillary lymphadenopathy. The histology of an excised lymph node showed evidence suggestive of Kikuchi disease. Subsequent laboratory tests showed evidence of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, underscoring the importance of considering other diagnoses in a nodal histological diagnosis of Kikuchi disea...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to analyze the ultrasonographic (USG) findings of Kikuchi cervical lymphadenopathy in pediatric patients. METHODS Between April 2007 and September 2016, 84 children (42 male and 42 female; mean±standard deviation age, 12.9±3.2 years; range, 5 to 18 years) confirmed with Kikuchi disease were enrolled. Clinical findings and USG findings of Kikuchi cervical ...

OBJECTIVE Although tuberculous lymphadenitis and Kikuchi disease are common causes of cervical lymphadenopathy in Asians and exhibit similar clinical manifestations, their treatment strategies are totally different. The purpose of this study was to identify ultrasonographic features that distinguish these two diseases. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was approved by the Institutional Review ...

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...