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From Confusion to Clarity: Management of Rare and Elusive, KIKUCHI-FUJIMOTO Disease

SUNIL VASUDEV, PRAVEENA A, SARAYU GOPAL & DALLEN SHONE D’MELLO · Asian Journal of Case Reports in Medicine and Health · 2025

KIKUCHI-FUJIMOTO disease (KFD), or HISTIOCYTIC NECROTIZING LYMPHADENITIS, is a benign and self-limited disease that mainly affects young women. Patients present with localized lymphadenopathy, fever, and leukopenia in up to half of the cases. It was first described by Dr Masahiro...