Kikuchi's disease or kikuchi's syndrome? [6]

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 578-579

  Angel Moreno, Alfonso ^a   Hernández Cabrera, Michele ^b   Pérez Arellano, Jose Luis ^b,c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DE HIERRO   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO INSULAR DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIFAMPICIN; STEROID; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; ASIAN; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; CASE REPORT; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KIKUCHI DISEASE; LETTER; PARASITE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; STEROID THERAPY; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; VIRUS;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; CAT-SCRATCH DISEASE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HISTIOCYTIC NECROTIZING LYMPHADENITIS; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, ASEPTIC;

EID: 32044472870     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/500017     Document Type: Letter

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