Volume : VII, Issue : X, October - 2018

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease in a young female - a rare case report from north India

Dr. Deepak Gahlan, Dr. G. R. Ahangar, Dr. Neeraj Gupta

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Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease is a rare benign disease of unknown etiology. It is also called histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis which predominantly affects cervical lymph nodes. It has a greater tendency to affect young females. Clinically Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease may mimic with tuberculosis,systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and lymphoma, therefore excision biopsy of lymph node should be used to confirm the diagnosis of Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease. We report a case of 19 years old female patient, presented with high grade fever, multiple joints pain and enlarged cervical lymph nodes. Her diagnosis was conformed as Kikuchi’s disease after lymph node biopsy. She was given symptomatic treatment and she recovered thereafter.

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Dr. Deepak Gahlan, Dr. G.R. Ahangar, Dr. Neeraj Gupta, Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease in a young female‾a rare case report from north India, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : Volume-7 | Issue-10 | October-2018


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