Kikuchi's disease: a benign cause of fever and cervical lymphadenopathy.
Histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis (Kikuchi's disease, KD) is a rare benign condition of unknown origin, usually characterized by lymphadenopathy and fever, affecting mainly young women. We describe three cases of patients, one man and two women, with biopsy-proven KD detected at our university hospital during the past 3 years and we review the literature.
Boula
Anna M
AM
Departments of Haematology, Otorhinolarygology and Pathology, University Hospital of Heraklion, P.O. Box 1352, Heraklion, Crete Greece.
Bizakis
John G
JG
Tsirakis
George E
GE
Chimona
Theognosia S
TS
Stathopoulos
Efstathios N
EN
Alexandrakis
Michael G
MG