Abstract:We describe the case of a 19-year-old boy, who presented with diffuse lymph node enlargements and prominent involvement of his parotid glands. After a four-month history of unsuccessful diagnostic investigations, he was finally diagnosed with Kikuchi-Fujimoto's disease (KFD), a rare histiocytosis of unknown aetiology affecting lymph-nodes throughout the body. The diagnosis of KFD can only be made by histopathologic characterization of affected lymph-nodes, while, according to literature, clinical and imaging f… Show more
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