Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease in a 11 year male child : A Rare Case report and Review of literature

Abstract

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD) is a rare, benign disease of unknown etiology and mainly involves cervical lymph nodes. Clinically it may mimic tuberculosis or lymphoma and cause difficulty in diagnosis. Accurate diagnosis of Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD) requires histopathological examination. Herein we report a case of an 11-year-old male child presented with right sided posterior cervical lymphadenopathy with low grade fever and who was clinically misdiagnosed as tuberculosis. Excisional biopsy was performed and histopathology confirmed the diagnosis of Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD). He was given symptomatic treatment and his recovery was uneventful. Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD) affects mostly young adult females, but rarely may affects children. We present this case due to its rare age group presentation.