Kikuchi Disease - Diagnosis

Diagnosis

It is diagnosed by lymph node excision biopsy.

Kikuchi's disease is a self limiting illness which has symptoms which may overlap with Hodgkin's lymphoma leading to misdiagnosis in some patients.

ANA, APLA, Anti-dsDNA, RF are usually negative, and may help in differentiating from SLE.

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