Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease manifesting as recurrent thrombocytopenia and Mobitz type II atrioventricular block in a 7-year-old girl: A case report and analysis of 138 Chinese childhood Kikuchi-Fujimoto cases with 10 years of follow-up in 97 patients

Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics

Volumn 96, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1844-1847

  Jun Fen, Fu ^a   Chun Lin, Wang ^a   Li, Liang ^a   Dayan, Colin ^b   Guan Ping, Dong ^a   Fang, Hong ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cases analysis; Childhood; Kikuchi Fujimoto disease

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CEFUROXIME; DEXAMETHASONE; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PREDNISONE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; CHILD; CHINA; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KIKUCHI DISEASE; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADOLESCENT; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HISTIOCYTIC NECROTIZING LYMPHADENITIS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; PROGNOSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 36248979814     PISSN: 08035253     EISSN: 16512227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2007.00523.x     Document Type: Article

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