A rare disease diagnosed as lymph node tuberculosis: kikuchi-fujimoto disease

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KD) is a rare and self-limiting disease. It is characterized by benign necrotizing lymphadenitis, which is accompanied by fever and lymphadenopathy, with or without extension to other organs, such as skin, eyes and bone marrow. The histopathological characteristics of this disease are nuclear debris surrounded by a histiocytic infiltrate with different degrees of lymphocytes and immunoblast. Its etiology is unknown, it has been associated with systemic lupus erythematosus and infections by Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), parvovirus B-19, HIV and humanos herpesvirus 6; although the nature of the relationship is unclear. The case of a girl with Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease is presented.