The authors present a case of Kikuchi's disease associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and autoimmune-like hepatitis. Kikuchi's disease, or histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis is occasionally associated with SLE and mildly elevated aminotransferases. A 17-year old woman presented with fever, arthritis and bilateral cervical adenopathy. Histopathological and immunohistochemical exa...

Background: Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD) is an enigmatic, benign and self-limited syndrome characterized by regional lymphadenopathy with tenderness, usually accompanied by mild fever and night sweats. Patient: A 17 years old girl admitted in infectious diseases ward with chief complaint of fever and cervical lymphadenopathy since one week ago. Her problems started with fever and pharyngitis....

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease, known as Kikuchi disease, is a rare benign and self-limiting disorder that typically affects the regional cervical lymph nodes. Generalized lymphadenopathy and extranodal involvement are rare. We report a rare case of a 19-year-old female with a history of persistent fever, nausea, and debilitating malaise. Fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/co...

Sjögren’s syndrome is a chronic autoimmune exocrinopathy associated with dry eyes and dry mouth as major clinical manifestations. It is characterized by lymphocytic infiltration of lacrimal and salivary glands and autoantibody production, especially anti-Ro (or SSA) and anti-La (or SSB). Lymphoproliferative disorders are a feature of Sjögren’s syndrome, and can be considered an extraglandular m...

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD) benign, systemic lymphadenitis, self limiting disease Pathologists Kikuchi and Fujimoto in Japan in 1972. The incidence of KFD is unknown. KFD is up to 4 times commoner in women. It presents as lymphadenopathy mainly involving the cervical region, but can occur in any lymph node and even in extra nodal sites. Fever is associated with lymph node enlargement in half...

We have conducted a systematic investigation of the phase shift of the Reflection High Energy Electron Diffraction (RHEED) intensity oscillations during homoepitaxy of Ge(001) by molecular beam epitaxy for a wide range of diffraction conditions. Our results show that for small incidence angles with a beam azimuth several degrees away from the <110> crystallographic symmetry direction, the phase...

Two cases of Kikuchi disease showed variable nodal enhancing features, including homogeneous enhancement and focal or extensive nodal necrosis on contrast-enhanced CT scans. At MR imaging, the area of central necrosis was isointense or hypointense on T1-weighted images and had a lower signal than nonnecrotic areas on T2-weighted images. The CT appearance of Kikuchi disease can be variable and c...

Hisakazu Kikuchi, Hiroto Sato, Satoshi Hasebe, Naoki Mizutani, Shogo Muramatsu, Shigenobu Sasaki, Zie Zhou, Seishi Sekine, Yoshito Abe , and Makoto Nakashizuka 2 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Niigata University Niigata 950-2181, Japan 1 Integrated Manufacturing Technology Laboratory, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. 2-3-6 Akabane Minami, Kita-ku, Tokyo 115-8611, Japan 2 Grad...

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD) is a benign and self-limited disorder, characterized by regional cervical lymphadenopathy with tenderness, usually accompanied with mild fever and night sweats. Less frequent symptoms include weight loss, nausea, vomiting, sore throat. Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease is an extremely rare disease known to have a worldwide distribution with higher prevalence among Japanese...