Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy without Cervical Lymphadenopathy in a Case of Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease

Internal Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 649-652

  Yoshida, Yasushi ^a   Matsuzawa, Yasuo ^a   Rikitake, Hagino ^a   Wakabayashi, Toru ^a   Okada, Noriaki ^a   Kuroda, Toshihisa ^a   Kawashima, Kengo ^a   Tanabe, Masaaki ^a   Hiruta, Nobuyuki ^a   Nagashima, Makoto ^a   Kawashima, Tatsuo ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY SAKURA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kikuchi Fujimoto disease; Malignant lymphoma PET CT; Mediastinal lymph node

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; HUMAN; KIKUCHI DISEASE; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; MALE; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HISTIOCYTIC NECROTIZING LYMPHADENITIS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; MEDIASTINAL DISEASES;

EID: 81755169200     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.50.4693     Document Type: Article

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