| Literature DB >> 15043495 |
A M Gómez García1, E Martínez Hurtado, I Ruiz Ribera.
Abstract
Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease or necrotizing histiocytic lymphadenitis is a self-limited process of lymphatic system that affects more frequently young women. Fever and adenopathy, often cervical, are typical. Diagnosis is fundamentally based on the affected lymph node biopsy, since laboratory data are often normal. It's a very rare entity in Spain, being more frequent in Oriental countries. It's a benign evolution process, with a spontaneous healing in some weeks or months. This is the reason because of this disease could be infradiagnosed. It's very important the differential diagnosis with malignant lymphomas, because Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease doesn't need any treatment.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15043495 DOI: 10.4321/s0212-71992004000300009
Source DB: PubMed Journal: An Med Interna ISSN: 0212-7199