Volume : 7, Issue : 10, 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

Abstract :

<p class="Default" style="margin-top:2.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:2.0pt;&#10;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:9.05pt"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease <span class="A1"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:&#10;12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">is a rare benign disease of unknown etiology. It is also called histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis which </span></span>predominantly affects cervical lymph nodes. It has a greater tendency to affect young females. <span class="A1"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size:&#10;12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Clinically </span></span>Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease <span class="A1"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size:&#10;12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">may </span></span>mimic <span class="A1"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">with tuberculosis,</span></span>systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)<span class="A1"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt;&#10;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"> and lymphoma, therefore excision biopsy of lymph node should be used to confirm the diagnosis</span></span> of Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease. <span class="A1"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size:&#10;12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">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 </span></span>Kikuchi&rsquo;s disease<span class="A1"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"> after lymph node biopsy. She was given symptomatic treatment and she recovered thereafter.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>