A fatal case of Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease
Dosi, R.V.; Ambaliya, A.; Patel, J.S.; Bhambhani, Y.S.; Patell, R.D.
Journal of the Indian Medical Association 110(1): 53-54
2012
ISSN/ISBN: 0019-5847 PMID: 23029835 Document Number: 656615
Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease is an extremely rare, benign, auto-immune, clinicopathological condition presenting with fever and lymphadenopathy. It has higher prevalance among Japanese and other Asiatic individuals. It is usually self-limiting with extremely rare mortality. A case of an adolescent girl who presented with fever and cervical lymphadenopathy, found to have Kikuchi's disease on histopathology of cervical lymph node is being reported. She eventually succumbed to the disease.