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Case Number : Case 1062 - 18th July Posted By: Guest

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F20 Fever, cervical lymphadenopathy, rash comprising nodules and plaques over face and upper limbs (c/o Dr Tan Kong Bing & Lee Yoke Sun, National University Hospital, Singapore)

Case posted by Dr. Richard Carr.


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I´m not so confortable with the vacuolated cells too. They could represent infectious agent but I think they are hemophagocytosis associated with SLE. Stains are necessary.

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Dr. Mona Abdel-Halim

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I am also suspicious about these foamy cells with shreddy material, I will exclude Leprosy first.

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Arti Bakshi

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Interface change with apoptotic keratinocytes, histiocytes with karyorrhectic debris, (coupled with young female with cervical LNpathy and fever), makes me think of Kikuchi's disease.

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Dr. Mona Abdel-Halim

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[quote name='arti bakshi' timestamp='1405687116']
Interface change with apoptotic keratinocytes, histiocytes with karyorrhectic debris, (coupled with young female with cervical LNpathy and fever), makes me think of Kikuchi's disease.
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This is it,
I AGREE Arti Bakshi :-)

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Robledo F. Rocha

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Dr. Bakshi is right. Case history and microscopic images are of Kikuchi's disease. However, I fell uncomfortable to consider Kikuchi's disease something other than lupus erythematosus.

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I confess I didn't think of Kikuchi's. The clinical details could as well be those of SLE (young woman, fever and lymphadenopathy) and Kikuchi's would not be on the top of your list in Britain. On top of that, the pathology of the skin (and lymph node) lesions in the two diseases are not dissimilar. The late Ronald Dorfman proposed that Kikuchi's is a self-limiting form of SLE and recommend that patients with Kikuchi's be followed up make sure that they do not develop SLE ([url="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3217625"]http://www.ncbi.nlm..../pubmed/3217625[/url]).

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Dr. Richard Carr

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Well done Arti putting together the histology (lupus like with lymphoid apoptosis) with the the clinical. Indeed this was a case of Kikuchi's.
A wonderful case I hope you will agree.
Enjoy your weekends
Richard

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