CERVICAL LYMPH-NODE ENLARGEMENT DUE TO KI KUCHI AND FUJIMOTO-DISEASE - REPORT OF ONE CASE

Kikuchi and Fujimoto disease is a benign subacute necrotizing lymphade nitis, probably associated to a viral infection, that affects mostly y oung Asian women. We report a 19 years old woman with a vast familiar history of thyroid disease (three uncles with papillary thyroid carcin oma and one with a Hashimoto thyroiditis). After an upper respiratory infection, she presented with painless cervical adenopathies. Cervical ultrasound examination detected an 8 mm thyroidal nodule. She was ope rated with the diagnosis of thyroidal cancer. The pathological examina tion confirmed that the nodule was a papillary thyroidal cancer, but t he study of the resected lymph nodes, revealed a Kikuchi and Fujimoto disease.