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Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease: an amazing response to hydroxychloroquine

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Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease is a benign and self-limited disorder. The common clinical features are fever and cervical lymphadenitis. A 9-year-old girl with fever and cervical lymphadenitis was admitted because of persistent symptoms. A cervical lymph node biopsy showed the characteristic features of Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease. Herein, we will discuss the clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment of Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease and highlight the dramatic response when a patient was treated with hydroxychloroquine.

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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, 386, Ta-Chung 1st road, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

    Po-Hung Chen, Shue-Ren Wann & Hong-Tai Chang

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, 386, Ta-Chung 1st road, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

    Yung-Feng Huang & Chia-Wan Tang

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Chen, PH., Huang, YF., Tang, CW. et al. Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease: an amazing response to hydroxychloroquine. Eur J Pediatr 169, 1557–1559 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-010-1256-x

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