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Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease: an amazing response to hydroxychloroquine.
- Source :
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European journal of pediatrics [Eur J Pediatr] 2010 Dec; Vol. 169 (12), pp. 1557-9. Date of Electronic Publication: 2010 Jul 20. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease is a benign and self-limited disorder. The common clinical features are fever and cervical lymphadenitis. A 9-year-old girl with fever and cervical lymphadenitis was admitted because of persistent symptoms. A cervical lymph node biopsy showed the characteristic features of Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease. Herein, we will discuss the clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment of Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease and highlight the dramatic response when a patient was treated with hydroxychloroquine.
- Subjects :
- Biopsy
Child
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Fever drug therapy
Histiocytic Necrotizing Lymphadenitis pathology
Humans
Lymphadenitis drug therapy
Treatment Outcome
Enzyme Inhibitors therapeutic use
Histiocytic Necrotizing Lymphadenitis diagnosis
Histiocytic Necrotizing Lymphadenitis drug therapy
Hydroxychloroquine therapeutic use
Lymphadenitis pathology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1432-1076
- Volume :
- 169
- Issue :
- 12
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- European journal of pediatrics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 20645108
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-010-1256-x