|
KMID : 0363220070450050471
|
|
Korean Journal of Dermatology
2007 Volume.45 No. 5 p.471 ~ p.476
|
|
|
Two Cases of Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Following Kikuchi’s Disease
|
|
Kim Jae-Wang
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
Kikuchi’s disease is a benign, self-limiting, acute, necrotizing lymphadenitis predominantly occurring in young women in Asia. Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), previously known as hemophagocytic syndrome, describes the pathologic phenomenon of activated macrophages engulfing erythrocytes, leukocytes, platelets and their precursor cells. HLH, frequently associated with infection, malignancy or autoimmune disease, runs a potentially fatal course. To my knowledge, there are very few reports of HLH preceded by Kikuchi’s disease. I report two cases of HLH following Kikuchi’s disease.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis, Kikuchi’s Disease
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
  
|
|