Necrotizing lymphadenitis: If not tuberculosis then what?

We present a rare case of Kikuchi disease in a young lady presenting with fever and cervical lymphadenopathy. Clinically, the disease mimics tuberculosis and lymphoma. Lymph node biopsy is diagnostic and treatment is symptomatic. Although tuberculosis is endemic, clinicians should be aware of uncomm...

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Autor principal: Punjabi, Rhea K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5958581/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29915771
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_162_17
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description We present a rare case of Kikuchi disease in a young lady presenting with fever and cervical lymphadenopathy. Clinically, the disease mimics tuberculosis and lymphoma. Lymph node biopsy is diagnostic and treatment is symptomatic. Although tuberculosis is endemic, clinicians should be aware of uncommon conditions as early recognition of the disease will minimize unnecessary evaluation and treatment.
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spelling pubmed-59585812018-06-18 Necrotizing lymphadenitis: If not tuberculosis then what? Punjabi, Rhea K. J Family Med Prim Care Case Report We present a rare case of Kikuchi disease in a young lady presenting with fever and cervical lymphadenopathy. Clinically, the disease mimics tuberculosis and lymphoma. Lymph node biopsy is diagnostic and treatment is symptomatic. Although tuberculosis is endemic, clinicians should be aware of uncommon conditions as early recognition of the disease will minimize unnecessary evaluation and treatment. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5958581/ /pubmed/29915771 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_162_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title Necrotizing lymphadenitis: If not tuberculosis then what?
title_full Necrotizing lymphadenitis: If not tuberculosis then what?
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title_full_unstemmed Necrotizing lymphadenitis: If not tuberculosis then what?
title_short Necrotizing lymphadenitis: If not tuberculosis then what?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5958581/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_162_17
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