Authors

P Baburaj^a, Arun G Pudoor^a, Thomson Antony^a, Harikrishnan B L^a
aDepartment of General Medicine, Jubilee Mission Medical College, Thrissur, Kerala

Abstract

Kikuchi Fujimoto disease is a self limiting necrotizing lymphadenitis presenting with cervical lymphadenitis, fever, myalgia, rash & neutropenia. Rarely extra nodal involvement is seen.
The aetiology is attributed to infective or autoimmune causes. The clinical features, differential diagnosis and typical histopathological appearance is described.
Keywords: Lymphadenopathy, Necrotizing Lymphadenitis, Autoimmune, Lymphohistiocytic Infiltration

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