Mahfoudhi, Madiha and Gorsane, Imen and Turki, Sami and Abdallah, Taieb Ben (2015) Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease Mimicking Tuberculosis. International Journal of Clinical Medicine, 06 (10). pp. 725-728. ISSN 2158-284X
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Abstract
A 32-year-old woman presented with a fever and cervical lymphadenopathies. The research for Mycobacterium tuberculosis was negative. Tuberculin skin test was positive. Laboratory investigations showed an elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate and a normal white blood cell count. Bacteriological and viral investigations were negative. Quantiferon-Tb Gold test was indeterminate. Thraco-abdominal and pelvic computed tomography, FDG-PET and gallium scintigraphy revealed no abnormalities. Histological study of cervical lymph node biopsy found signs in favor of histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis. There were no epithelioid cell granulomas. A test tuberculosis treatment was refused by the patient. The evolution was marked by spontaneous clinical and biological resolution in fifty days. The negative Lowenstein-Jensen culture eliminated formally the tuberculosis. KFD was thus the most likely diagnosis.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | Euro Archives > Medical Science |
Depositing User: | Managing Editor |
Date Deposited: | 24 Jan 2023 04:38 |
Last Modified: | 07 Jun 2024 09:30 |
URI: | http://publish7promo.com/id/eprint/1622 |