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[Necrotizing lymphadenitis (Kikuchi's disease) and systemic lupus erythematosus: a single entity?]
B Tumiati1, P Casoli, E Gasparini
12a Divisione di Medicina Interna, Ospedale S. Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia.
Annali Italiani Di Medicina Interna : Organo Ufficiale Della Societa Italiana Di Medicina Interna
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
Kikuchi's necrotizing lymphadenitis is a histologically alarming but self-limiting lesion typically affecting the cervical lymph nodes of young women. The authors report 2 cases of systemic lupus erythematosus with the finding of Kikuchi's disease on lymph node biopsy. Considering the common infectious and/or immunologic etiologies described in both disorders, coexistence of both conditions suggests the possibility that they share a common etiology.