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A white man with Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease mimicking lymphoma, preceded by frequent episodes of tonsillitis: a case report

BACKGROUND: Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease is a very rare cause of benign lymphadenopathy affecting mainly young Asiatic females. Little is known about the causative agent of Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease; however, there are hypotheses of infectious, autoimmune, or hyperimmune background of the disease that ha...

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Autores principales: Szczurowska, Agata, Pawlowski, Tomasz, Halon, Agnieszka, Skoczynska, Anna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5303605/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28189144
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-017-1208-4