title: Kikuchi-Fujimoto's disease with abdominal pain due to intra-abdominal lymphadenitis.
abstract: A 29-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with fever and abdominal pain. Abdominal echogram and CT revealed intra-abdominal lymphadenopathy. Seven days after the onset, she developed cervical lymphadenitis. Kikuchi-Fujimoto's disease (KFD) was diagnosed on cervical lymph node biopsy. Although KFD with intra-abdominal lymphadenopathy is rare, it should be considered in young adults with intra-abdominal lymphadenitis. Because KFD is a benign, self-limiting disease, we suggest the use of a minimally invasive method of diagnosis such as superficial lymph node biopsy.
authors.affiliation: Division of General Medicine, Center for Community Medicine, Jichi Medical University School of Medicine, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan.
authors.forename: Ayako
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Noda
authors.forename: Tsuneaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kenzaka
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sakatani
authors.forename: Eiji
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kajii
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology; D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D020042:Histiocytic Necrotizing Lymphadenitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed