Kikuchi-Fujimoto syndrome
Ul-Mulk, J.; Mortiz, J.
Ugeskrift for Laeger 172(16): 1218-1219
2010
ISSN/ISBN: 1603-6824 PMID: 20423669 Document Number: 639695
This article concerns a 25-year-old woman, with clinical symptoms of Kikuchi-Fujimoto Syndrome (KFS). The patient arrived ten days after symptom onset. She initially discovered lymphadenopathy on the right side of her neck. She had no fever, pruritus or weight loss. Fine needle aspiration biopsy indicated a lympho-proliferative disease, which was confirmed by a lymph node biopsy. KFS is histologically characterized by necrotizing lymphadenitis. The cardinal symptoms are fever, lymphadenopathy and night sweat.