[A rare case: Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease]

Tuberk Toraks. 2017 Dec;65(4):337-341. doi: 10.5578/tt.40395.
[Article in Turkish]

Abstract

Kikuchi-Fujimoto's disease (CFD) is a disease that usually exhibits self-limited benign lymph node involvement. Etiology of illness is not fully understood.Differential diagnosis should be performed well because lymph node involvement can be confused with lymphoma type diseases. A 35-year-old male patient with weakness, joint aches, fever, loss of appetite, weight loss, night sweating symptoms presented with the literature.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Histiocytic Necrotizing Lymphadenitis / diagnosis*
  • Histiocytic Necrotizing Lymphadenitis / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Lymph Nodes / pathology
  • Male