Shigekazu Iguchi *, Yuji Hirai , Yusuke Ainoda , Noriko Isoda , Hitomi Miura , Hiroto Egawa , Masakazu Yamamoto , Ken Kikuchi a Department of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan Department of Hematology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan Department of Clinical Laboratory, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan d Institute of Gastroenterology,...

I read the article entitled “Neck Abscess: An Unusual Clinical Presentation of Immunoglobulin G4-Related Disease” (IgG4-RD) with great interest given our limited knowledge of the entity to date. Review of the article suggests that the patient had necrotizing granulomatous lymphadenitis, for which the most common associated diseases were ruled out. However, one rare cause of such an aggressive a...

We describe the case of a 27-year-old male with painful lymphadenopathy involving multiple sites. An excisional lymph node biopsy established the diagnosis of Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD) and the patient improved with supportive care only and did not have further episodes. This is a case of a rare, benign lymphadenitis, of unknown etiology. The histopathology proved the benign character of th...

Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease (KFD), also known as histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis [corrected], is a benign, self-limiting disease that manifests primarily as cervical lymphadenopathy but may include low-grade fever, headache, and fatigue. There is a higher incidence of KFD in women aged 20-35 years and in Asian populations. A PubMed search revealed 590 articles that described KFD. Of these, 2...

Kikuchi's disease is a form of necrotising lymphadenitis typically presenting in young women with lymphadenopathy. A case of Kikuchi's disease is reported in order to highlight the diagnostic confusion that is often associated with the condition. The possibility of the disease should be taken into account in any patient presenting with unexplained lymphadenopathy, and consideration of the diagn...

Kikuchi's disease, or necrotizing histiocytic lymphadenitis, is a rare disease that presents predominantly in young women in their 20s and 30s from the Far East. Our case depicts an African-American male, in his sixth decade of life, presenting with Kikuchi's disease, making our case unusual. The clinical presentation, together with laboratory and pathological tests described here, specifically...

We investigated a cluster of 5 plague cases; the patients included 4 with severe pharyngitis and submandibular lymphadenitis. These 4 case-patients had eaten raw camel liver. Yersinia pestis was isolated from bone marrow of the camel and from jirds (Meriones libycus) and fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis) captured at the camel corral.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE KD, also known as histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis, is often mimicked by TL, especially when KD is accompanied by gross necrosis on CT. We analyzed the nodal necrosis patterns on CT in patients with KD and TL to identify the predictive features that differentiate these 2 entities. MATERIALS AND METHODS We included 24 patients with KD (14 females, 10 males; mean age...