Treatment of histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis (kikuchi's disease) with prolonged fever by a single course of methylprednisolone pulse therapy without maintenance therapy: Experience with 13 cases

Internal Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 2267-2270

  Yoshioka, Katsunobu ^a   Miyashita, Tomoko ^a   Nakamura, Tomoyuki ^a   Inoue, Takeshi ^a   Yamagami, Keiko ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

He mophagocytic syndrome; Histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis; Kikuchi's disease; Methylprednisolone pulse therapy

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS INFECTION; FEVER; HEADACHE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; KIKUCHI DISEASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOMA; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MALAISE; MALE; NECK PAIN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEPSIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; DRUG EVALUATION; FEMALE; FEVER; HISTIOCYTIC NECROTIZING LYMPHADENITIS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; PULSE THERAPY, DRUG; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78449307324     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.49.3919     Document Type: Article

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