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Necrotizing lymphadenitis: Kikuchi--Fujimoto disease alias lupus lymphadenitis?
Jp Cramer1, S Schmiedel, N G Alegre
1Section for Tropical Medicine, I, Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Bernhard-Nocht-Strasse 74, 20359 Hamburg, Germany.
Abstract:
Differentiation between lymphadenopathy in potentially life-threatening systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and self-limiting necrotizing lymphadenitis, also called Kikuchi- Fujimoto disease (KFD), is difficult. In the past, co-occurrence of SLE and KFD has been described repeatedly in case reports. Here, we report a case of necrotizing lymphadenitis, describe the clinical and histopathologic features in detail and discuss the current literature. KFD may in fact be a histopathologic characteristic of SLE supporting the hypothesis that KFD is a rare manifestation of SLE. To clarify whether KFD is the same entity as lupus lymphadenitis, more cases with SLE and lymphadenopathy should be examined in detail.
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