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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: McKenna C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5256458 | biostudies-other | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
BMJ case reports 20170104
A 29-year-old British Pakistani woman presented with a 2-month history of drenching fevers, night sweats, lethargy and tender cervical and axillary lymphadenopathy. Initial investigations, bloods and imaging were unremarkable. Fever persisted during her admission, and treatment for tuberculosis (TB) lymphadenitis was started postbiopsy until histology confirmed a diagnosis of Kikuchi-Fujimoto's disease (KFD). KFD has a non-specific presentation of fever, night sweats and lymphadenopathy and comm ...[more]