%0 Journal Article %T Linfadenitis histioc¨ªtica necrosante (enfermedad de Kikuchi-Fujimoto) %A Pallares-Trujillo %A Vanessa Carolina %A Hern¨¢ndez-Delgado %A Lorena %A Estrada-Moscoso %A Isa¨ªas %A Flores-Nava %A Gerardo %A Lavalle-Villalobos %A Antonio %J Bolet¨ªn m¨¦dico del Hospital Infantil de M¨¦xico %D 2005 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X introduction. kikuchi-fujimoto's disease is a histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis, not frequent in children. case report. nine year-old girl with history of fever, adenomegaly and loss of weight that required a lymph node biopsy which was interpreted as necrotizing lymphadenitis (kikuchi-fujimoto's disease), she responded to anti inflammatory medication but presented a relapse 5 years later. conclusion. kikuchi-fujimoto's disease should be suspected in the patients with fever, lymphadenitis, and weight loss after infectious and malignant etiologies have been ruled out. the definitive diagnosis is skin biopsy. %K kikuchi-fujimoto's disease %K lymphadenitis %K lymph node biopsy. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1665-11462005000200007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en