%0 Journal Article
%T Enfermedad de Kikuchi-Fujimoto: Presentaci¨®n de un caso pedi¨¢trico
%A Hern¨¢ndez Cabezas
%A Ania
%A D¨ªaz Linares
%A Nelkis C
%J Revista Cubana de Hematolog£¿-a, Inmunolog£¿-a y Hemoterapia
%D 2010
%I Editorial Ciencias M¨¦dicas
%X this is the case of a white patient aged 14 diagnosed with kikuchi-fujimoto disease presenting adenopathies prevailing in left cervical region, short-term course fever and involvement of its general condition without weigh loss. authors made studies of general hematology, viral serology and fine needle aspiration biopsy of a cervical ganglion. there were suspicions of neoplasic cells in aspirate. ganglion biopsy showed abundant histiocytes, immunoblasts, and cellular necrosis with nuclear powder and caryorrhesis, as well as a lack of neutrophils and eosinophils. there was a favorable course with disappearance of fever at 20 days from the onset of its manifestations with a gradual regression of adenopathies.
%K kikuchi-fujimoto disease
%K adenopathies
%K fever.
%U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0864-02892010000100010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en