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Mostafa Alabousi, Abdullah Alabousi, Supriya Kulkarni, Michael N. Patlas. Atlas of Emergency Imaging from Head-to-Toe. 2025;  doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-44092-3_19-2
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Amit R Rup, Kinnera Sailaja , Hema Latha Gundu, Keertthana Padmanaban, Swarnalata Das, Akruti Mishra, Nirmal K Mohakud. Co-occurrence of Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, and Macrophage Activation Syndrome Presenting With Acute Pancreatitis and Myositis in an Adolescent Male Patient. Cureus 2026;  doi: 10.7759/cureus.109513
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Ren-He Chen, Ke-Yun Ding, Zhi-Guo Zhao, Fang-Zhou Chen, Guo-Rui Li. Painless postauricular mass: An atypical presentation of Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease. Journal of International Medical Research 2025; 53(4) doi: 10.1177/03000605251332902
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Nelson Luis Cahuapaza-Gutierrez, Cielo Cinthya Calderon-Hernandez, Tatiana Vanessa Villavicencio-Escudero. Kikuchi-Fujimoto in the light of the COVID-19: infection and vaccination. A systematic review. Clinical Rheumatology 2025; 44(8) doi: 10.1007/s10067-025-07548-z
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Robert Baxter, Corinne Russell, Katharine Benedict. A Rare Differential for Myalgia and Fever Associated With Cervical and Axillary Lymphadenopathy Presenting via Same Day Emergency Care. Cureus 2025;  doi: 10.7759/cureus.96947
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Ecem Kalemoglu, Ming Zheng, Danny Arias, Andreina M. Paulino, Aisha Niaz, James Devlin, Valentin Marian. Case series: Kikuchi‐Fujimoto disease with diagnostic overlap. Rheumatology & Autoimmunity 2026; 6(3) doi: 10.1002/rai2.70055
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E. V. Aranovich, V. A. Lisovoy, V. A. Fefelova. Kikuchi-Fujimoto’s Disease on The Background of Primary Immunodeficiency and Multiple Sclerosis: A Clinical Case. The Russian Archives of Internal Medicine 2026; 16(4) doi: 10.20514/2226-6704-2026-16-4-305-311
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Gulden Diniz, Ali İhsan Gemici. All Dimensions of Pathology. 2026;  doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-23967-9_20
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Hideo Handa, Atsuhiko Sugiyama, Hitoshi Kubosawa, Yuki Nakagawa, Dai Kishida, Akiyuki Uzawa, Akiyo Aotsuka, Satoshi Kuwabara. A patient with P369S/R408Q variants in the MEFV gene presented with clinical features of Kikuchi disease and Mollaret meningitis, successfully treated with colchicine. BMC Neurology 2024; 24(1) doi: 10.1186/s12883-024-03950-3
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Maria João Cadório, João Oliveira, João Gama, Cátia Duarte. Kikuchi–Fujimoto disease and primary Sjögren’s syndrome coexisting: A case-based literature review. Modern Rheumatology Case Reports 2025; 9(1) doi: 10.1093/mrcr/rxae058
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Baseel Tawfik Daoo, Shahd Alhayek, Dana Alakhrass, Mosa Shibani, Mohammad Samih Khallouf. Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease: 6 years old boy rare case in Syria. Oxford Medical Case Reports 2025; 2025(1) doi: 10.1093/omcr/omae172
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Norifumi Yokoyama, Taichi Miyazaki, Ikko Oshiro, Yumi Oshima, Tomoaki Hirate, Mari Mori, Kaori Kanda, Kunihiro Shinoda. Acute myocardial infarction in an adolescent following recurrent Kikuchi–Fujimoto disease. BMJ Case Reports 2025; 18(11) doi: 10.1136/bcr-2025-267938
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Fang Guo, Lei Kang, Bo Li, Yanhong Jia, Xiaoyuan Wu. Aseptic meningitis and meningoencephalitis associated with pediatric histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis: a 26-case series. Frontiers in Immunology 2026; 17 doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2026.1893986
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Arunima Deb, Vielka Fernandez, Ekim Kilinc, Hisham F. Bahmad, Nicholas S. Camps, Vathany Sriganeshan, Ana Maria Medina. Kikuchi–Fujimoto Disease: A Case Series and Review of the Literature. Diseases 2024; 12(11) doi: 10.3390/diseases12110271
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Vignesh Kumar Kathiresan, V S Aswith Chowdary Jonnalagadda, Barney Thomas Isaac, Elanthenral Sigamani. Co-occurrence of disseminated Mycobacterium kansasii infection and Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease in an immunocompetent patient. BMJ Case Reports 2026; 19(1) doi: 10.1136/bcr-2025-268631
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Weng Kit Chan, Charelle Manning, Simon Rushbrook, Charlotte Pither, Hameed Rafiee, Sophia Neda, Joy Staniforth, Syed Alam. Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease mimicking hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in a young white male: a case report. Journal of Medical Case Reports 2026; 20(1) doi: 10.1186/s13256-026-06247-w
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Anuradha Bishnoi, Apoorva Sharma, Narayanan Baskaran, Hitaishi Mehta, Debajyoti Chatterjee, Keshavamurthy Vinay. Acquired autoinflammatory disorders: a dermatologist’s perspective. Clinical and Experimental Dermatology 2025; 50(5) doi: 10.1093/ced/llae544
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Zainah Siddiqi, Anna Xu, Melina Ortiz, Aaron Owens, Elena Jiménez Gutiérrez. Recognition of Kikuchi–Fujimoto Disease in a Patient With Common Symptoms. Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases 2026; 5(7) doi: 10.7326/aimcc.2025.1026
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Jinnam Kim. Differential diagnosis and stepwise evaluation of cervical lymphadenopathy in adults. Journal of the Korean Medical Association 2026; 69(7) doi: 10.5124/jkma.26.0059
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Pitchaporn Yingchoncharoen, Nattanicha Chaisrimaneepan, Miriam Paz, Alexandra Hoffman, Kuldeep Lohano, Safaa Labib, John Pixley. Case Report: Two Cases of Kikuchi Disease in West Texas With Non-Self-Limited Disease. Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports 2025; 13 doi: 10.1177/23247096251350580
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Aakash V. Patel, Eli Miloslavsky, Haatem Reda, James R. Stone, Marcy B. Bolster. A 27‐Year‐Old Woman With Acute Encephalopathy and Painful Bilateral Cervical Lymphadenopathy. Arthritis Care & Research 2025; 77(9) doi: 10.1002/acr.25563
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Xiangyong Tang, Chenjia Lu, Yuzhong Zhang, Linning E. Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease in posterior mediastinum: A case report. Asian Journal of Surgery 2025; 48(3) doi: 10.1016/j.asjsur.2024.10.003
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Richard C. Cabot, Eric S. Rosenberg, David M. Dudzinski, Meridale V. Baggett, Daniel Restrepo, Dennis C. Sgroi, Jo-Anne O. Shepard, Lindsay Maguire, Ezra M. Cohen, Shohei Fujita, Daniel R. Brown, Vanda F. Torous. Case 28-2026: A 19-Year-Old Woman with Fever, Cervical Lymphadenopathy, and Leukopenia. New England Journal of Medicine 2026; 395(14) doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc2603182
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Divya Bhatia, Suman Patra, Neeharika Verma, Poonam Abhay Elhence. Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease and Behcet’s disease: A rare association. Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology 2025; 0 doi: 10.25259/IJDVL_196_2025
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Sophie Antonia Barclay Erdmann, Daniel Do Nguyen, Simon Wei. Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease: a differential for fevers and lymphadenopathy. BMJ Case Reports 2025; 18(4) doi: 10.1136/bcr-2024-263960
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Gun Ho Kim, Eui-Suk Sung, Kyoung Won Nam. Convolutional neural network analysis of cervical CT images: classification of Kikuchi disease, lymphoma, lymphadenitis, and tuberculosis. BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2026; 25(1) doi: 10.1186/s12938-026-01586-7
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Saad Bouchlarhem, Sbai Achraf Amine, Benfadil Drissia, Lachkar Azeddine, El Ayoubi El Idrissi Fahd. A Kikuchi–Fujimoto syndrome in the pocket of a non-Hodgkin lymphoma: case report with a mini-review of the literature. Annals of Medicine & Surgery 2025; 87(6) doi: 10.1097/MS9.0000000000002986
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Xiaona Zhu, Chen Liu, Zhi Yang, Yanyan Huang, Ying Luo, Jun Yang, Tingyan He. Development and validation of a cytokine-based diagnostic model for Kikuchi–Fujimoto disease. Frontiers in Immunology 2026; 17 doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2026.1701510
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Mostafa Alabousi, Abdullah Alabousi, Supriya Kulkarni, Michael N. Patlas. Atlas of Emergency Imaging from Head-to-Toe. 2025;  doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-78916-8_19
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Hanzla Maryam, Seemal Aslam, Muhammad Awais Kanwal, Salma Abbas, Tariq Mehmood, Muhammad Fasial, Akifa Abbas, Faisal Sultan. Clinicopathological Characteristics of Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease: A Retrospective Case Series from Pakistan. Cureus 2026;  doi: 10.7759/cureus.110059
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Ali Gohar, Bilal Ahmed, Masab Ali, Abdul Rehman, Muhammad Husnain Ahmad, Asim Ali, Syed Saqlain Haider Shah, Muhammad Maaz Bin Rehan. Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease: an unusual case report of lymphadenopathy with the absence of classic symptoms. Annals of Medicine & Surgery 2025; 87(4) doi: 10.1097/MS9.0000000000003062
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Priya R Nair, Nandkishor J Bankar, Amruta Choudhary, Deepti Shrivastava. Kikuchi Fujimoto Lymphadenitis: A Rare Association With COVID-19 Vaccination. Cureus 2023;  doi: 10.7759/cureus.45979
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Maria Rogalidou, Vasileios Xydis, Kalliopi Stefanaki, Nikolaos Chaliasos, Ekaterini Siomou, Alexandros Makis. Kikuchi–Fujimoto Disease: A Rare Etiology Behind Pediatric Cervical and Supraclavicular Lymphadenopathy: A Case Report. Reports 2025; 8(3) doi: 10.3390/reports8030182
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Salma Bessioud, Karima Tlili, Hager Barakizou, Sameh Mezri. Late progression of pediatric Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease to systemic lupus erythematosus: a case report and review of literature. Frontiers in Immunology 2026; 16 doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1724306
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Baraa Chkir, Aroon Sivaji. Unravelling Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease: A Unique Presentation of Recurrent Aseptic Meningitis in a District Hospital Setting. Cureus 2024;  doi: 10.7759/cureus.74897
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Daniel de Barros Jesus, Carla Lima Santos Viviani, Marcelo Moreira da Silva. DOENÇA DE KIKUCHI-FUJIMOTO SIMULANDO DOENÇA LINFOPROLIFERATIVA EM PET/CT COM 18F-FDG: RELATO DE CASO E REVISÃO DA LITERATURA. International Journal of Health Management Review 2026; 12(3) doi: 10.47172/ijhmreview.v12i3.613
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天一 秦. A Case of Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment for Tissue Cell Necrotizing Lymphadenitis and Literature Review. Advances in Clinical Medicine 2024; 14(05) doi: 10.12677/acm.2024.1451489
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Vidushi Saxena, Ram Shankar Mishra, Rohit Nayyar, Vivek Saxena. Kikuchi Disease Masquerading as Lymphoma: Unravelling the Diagnostic Conundrum . Cureus 2026;  doi: 10.7759/cureus.110789
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烨烨 李. Analysis of the Clinical Characteristics of Histiocytic Necrotizing Lymphadenitis in a Single Center. Advances in Clinical Medicine 2025; 15(05) doi: 10.12677/acm.2025.1551356
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Brittani P Kongala, David J Gorelov, Anwar A Khan, Tetyana Shvets, Ashley Falk. A Case of Necrotizing Lymphadenitis From Streptococcus pyogenes. Cureus 2025;  doi: 10.7759/cureus.84673
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Vanesa Garrigasait Vilaseca, Ana Maria Gutierrez Baena. Enfermedad de Kikuchi-Fujimoto. Descripción de un caso. Medicina Clínica 2026; 166(12) doi: 10.1016/j.medcli.2026.107648
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Abdulla Alfraij, Fatma Mothafar, Wasmi Alfadhli, Ali Ashkanani, Lujain A. Kamal, Esmail Redha, Abdulrahman Aldaithan. Unusual Hemodynamic Presentation of Pediatric Kikuchi‐Fujimoto Disease: Persistent Sinus Bradycardia and Vasopressor‐Dependent Hypotension. Clinical Case Reports 2026; 14(10) doi: 10.1002/ccr3.73654
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Yi-De Li, Zhiwei Zhu, Hao-Dong Jiang, Qia Cheng, Man-Qiong Yang, Boyu Tan, Yu-Pin Tan. Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease initially presenting with severe digestive symptoms and progressing to systemic lupus erythematosus: a case report and literature review. Frontiers in Pediatrics 2026; 14 doi: 10.3389/fped.2026.1732348
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Julian Rieck, Carsten Dittmayer, Martin Janz, David Horst, Simon Schallenberg. From suspected lymphoma to self-limiting lymphadenitis: Kikuchi–Fujimoto disease in focus. Journal of Hematopathology 2026; 19(1) doi: 10.1007/s12308-026-00709-2
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Mehar Aggarwal, Vivek Kumar, Monica Gupta, Sonu Goyal, Phiza Aggarwal. A Fine Line between Benign and Autoimmune: The Kikuchi–Fujimoto–Lupus Diagnostic Trap—A Case Report. Annals of Rheumatology and Autoimmunity 2026; 6(3) doi: 10.4103/ara.ara_2_26
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Indrika Sharma, Raju K Shinde, Venkatesh M Rewale, Tushar Nagtode, Akshunna Keerti. When Rare Meets Reality: A Case of Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease in Tertiary Care Center. Cureus 2024;  doi: 10.7759/cureus.66747
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Qianwei Li, Lianshan Zhan, Tian Tian, Xin He. Hemophagocytic Syndrome Secondary to Kikuchi–Fujimoto Disease: A Rare Case in a Pregnant Woman. Clinical Nuclear Medicine Open 2025; 2(2) doi: 10.1097/nm9.0000000000000013
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Nicole K. Andeen, Tiffany Caza, Sadhika Sood, Anila Abraham Kurien, Jacob Dougherty, Vanderlene L. Kung, Jennifer Dunlap, Rupali S. Avasare, Atul Deodhar, Megan L. Troxell, L Nicolas Cossey, Christopher Larsen, Josephine Ambruzs. Kikuchi-Fujimoto-Like Renal Involvement in Autoimmune Disease. Kidney International Reports 2026; 11(11) doi: 10.1016/j.ekir.2026.107035
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Liman Zhang, Jie Yang, Lili Wang, Tianpeng Zhang, Fei Ju, Yanjang Wu. Perianal abscess complicated by histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis postoperatively: a case report. Journal of Surgical Case Reports 2024; 2025(1) doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjaf007
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Benhur Joel Shadrach, Lexmi Priya Raju, Asma Bibi, Kunal Deokar, Priyanka Gaikwad, Jinish Doshi. Human papilloma virus vaccine induced Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease: A case report. Lung India 2025; 42(3) doi: 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_557_24
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Jumanah Alfuwayris, Mashael Almousa, Abdulaziz Alsarawi. Kikuchi Disease in a Young Woman With Sickle Cell Disease: A Case Report. Cureus 2025;  doi: 10.7759/cureus.78950
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Shipla Roy, Tuphan Kanti Dolai, Kaustav Ghosh. An Unusual Cause of Lymphadenopathy: Kikuchi–Fujimoto Disease Associated with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Archives of Medicine and Health Sciences 2026;  doi: 10.4103/amhs.amhs_192_25
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Aishwarya K Kedar, Babaji Ghewade, Ulhas Jadhav, Pankaj Wagh, Vivek D Alone. Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease: A Rare Presentation in a Young Male. Cureus 2024;  doi: 10.7759/cureus.55615
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Shengfang Bao, Hua Huang, Yingying Jin, Fei Ding, Zhen Yang, Xuemei Xu, Chenxi Liu, Xiqiong Han, Liping Wang, Jingyi Lu, Jiani Ma, Yanliang Jin. Optic Neuritis in a Pediatric Patient with Kikuchi–Fujimoto Disease: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Journal of Inflammation Research 2024;  doi: 10.2147/JIR.S458990
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Yoshito Homma, Tomoya Katsuta, Takeshi Inoue, Yusuke Fukumori, Kyoko Yokota. CT-detected lymphadenopathy and prognostic markers in severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome: a retrospective study. BMC Infectious Diseases 2026; 26(1) doi: 10.1186/s12879-026-13525-x
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Danny Luan, Kavya Penmethsa, Sanjay Patel, Justin Kaner, David R. Fernandez. Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease as an Etiology for Relapsing/Remitting Fevers and Lymphadenopathy in a Patient With Dermatomyositis. Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases 2026; 5(6) doi: 10.7326/aimcc.2026.0103
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Wenyi Qin, Shuangshuang Yang, Lijuan Zhang, Mengqi Liu, Jiayu Tian, Juan Yang, Guoqing Zhou, Xiaofeng Rong. Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease evolves into lupus encephalopathy characterized by venous sinus thrombosis: a case report. Frontiers in Immunology 2024; 15 doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1389993
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Imane Hakim, Layla Bendaoud, Maryem Aboudourib, Said Amal, Ouafa Hocar. Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease Associated With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Presenting With Prominent Cutaneous Manifestations: A Case Report. Cureus 2026;  doi: 10.7759/cureus.107099
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Mickael Essouma, Jean Jacques Noubiap. Lupus and other autoimmune diseases: Epidemiology in the population of African ancestry and diagnostic and management challenges in Africa. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: Global 2024; 3(4) doi: 10.1016/j.jacig.2024.100288
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Kiran Kumar, Sandeep Dabhekar, Rohit Bhondekar, K. Khadeeja, Nittika Garg. Parotid Glands as Pandora’s Box: A Case of Mistaken Swelling—Pediatric Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease with Secondary HLH Masquerading as Infective Parotitis. Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery 2025; 77(12) doi: 10.1007/s12070-025-05954-y
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Jakub Stanek, Jagoda Jakubik-Stanek, Dominik Paprocki, Piotr Król, Jarosław Jakubik. Atypical lymph node involvement in a rare case of Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease: a case report and literature review. Polish Journal of Pathology 2026; 77(1) doi: 10.5114/pjp.2026.161721
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Lili Liu, Wen Zhang, Minjie Huang, Kaiji Li, Li’ou Zhu, Liqin Ke, Juan Huang, Ying Wu. The clinical and pathological features of Kimura disease in pediatric patients. Frontiers in Medicine 2024; 11 doi: 10.3389/fmed.2024.1352206
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Elisabeth Simader. Kikuchi-Fujimoto-Erkrankung (histiozytär-nekrotisierende Lymphadenopathie): eine seltene Systemerkrankung. rheuma plus 2026; 25(1) doi: 10.1007/s12688-025-00859-8
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Masayuki Fuwa, Yuya Tamai, Ayaka Kato, Motochika Asano, Ichiro Mori, Daichi Watanabe, Hiroyuki Morita. Serum Soluble IL-2 Receptors Are Elevated in Febrile Illnesses and Useful for Differentiating Clinically Similar Malignant Lymphomas from Kikuchi Disease: A Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of Clinical Medicine 2024; 13(11) doi: 10.3390/jcm13113248
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Aiman Gamal Abdelrahim, Julian Schulze zur Wiesch, Ulrike Schnoor, Stefan Schmiedel. Kikuchi-Fujimoto-Krankheit: Fallbericht einer 32-jährigen Frau mit Lymphadenopathie und Fieber. Zeitschrift für Rheumatologie 2026; 85(4) doi: 10.1007/s00393-025-01725-w
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Christian Görg, Yi Dong, Görg Friedemann, Christian Jenssen, Michael Kallenbach, Kathleen Möller, Findeisen Hajo, Nitin Chaubal, Christoph Frank Dietrich. Necrotizing (Abscessing) Lymphadenopathy and the Diagnostic Value of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS): A Review with Clinical Vignettes. Diagnostics 2026; 16(6) doi: 10.3390/diagnostics16060888
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Meryl S Kottarathil , Lawrence D'Cruze, Sandhya Sundaram, Suman H Kalantri, Akanksha Malik. Spectrum of Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease: A 10-Year Study in a Tertiary Care Centre in South India. Cureus 2024;  doi: 10.7759/cureus.69888
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K. J. Sampath Kumar, Y. Saadvik Raghuram, N. Kavitha Bali. Coexistence of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and Kikuchi disease – Are they continuum of single entity or two different entities?. Journal of Diagnostic and Academic Pathology 2024; 1(2) doi: 10.4103/jdap.jdap_28_24
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Hung Cao Dinh, Dung Manh Doan, Khanh Quang Tran, Trung The Tran, Si Luc Nguyen. Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease co-occuring with Hashimoto thyroiditis: A case report and literature review. Annals of Clinical Biochemistry: International Journal of Laboratory Medicine 2025; 62(1) doi: 10.1177/00045632241280595
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Anastasia Delmotte, Lea Savey, Géraldine Bera, Claude Bachmeyer. Fever and lymphadenopathy in a young woman. The American Journal of Medicine 2026;  doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2026.07.037