introduction: kikuchi-fujimoto disease or histocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis is a rare, benign, self-limited condition characterized by constitutional symptoms, lymphadenopathy, and skin lesions and often affects young adult females.the etiology is unknown although viruses and autoimmune mechanisms has been suggested. diagnosis is fundamentally based on the affected lymph node biopsy.the pati...

kikuchi-fujimoto disease or histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis is an idiopathic, self-limiting disorder and predominantly affects young women. we report a 35-year-old female who presented with soft to firm cervical lymphadenopathy and neck pain. she had multiple enlarged cervical nodes. examination of other systems was normal. lymph node biopsy was performed, and the histological features, a...

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hyperimmune reaction to We stained our material using the an unknown aetiological agent such as a napthol-ASD-chloroacetate method, but virus. were unable to identify any convincingly Our use of the "unqualified term necropositive cells or debris. Feller et al' also used tizing lymphadenitis" was criticised by Dr this technique but do not mention any posiJM Woodruff of the Memorial Sloantive fi...

Eleven cases of histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis were studied. Originally four were misdiagnosed as cervical tuberculous lymphadenitis. The characteristic symptoms and signs were local tenderness, fever, leucocytopenia and good prognosis. Antibody to Epstein-Barr virus was elevated in 2 of 3 cases. Biopsy of the affected lymph node was necessary when the differential diagnosis from lymph n...

histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis or kikuchi's disease is a rare, benign condition of unknown etiology, which is usually characterized by cervical lymphadenopathy and fever. this disease is rarely associated with systemic lupus erythematosus. here we describe, for the first time in iran, a patient who developed systemic lupus erythematosus about 3 years after the initial diagnosis of kikuch...

Kikuchi disease, also called histocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis or focal histiocytic lymphadenitis, is a rare, idiopathic and generally self limited cause of lymphadenitis. It was first described in 1972 in Japan. The most common clinical manifestation is cervical lymphadenopathy with or without systemic symptoms & signs. It almost always runs a benign course and resolves in several weeks to ...