KIKUCHI DISEASE WITH ASSOCIATED SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS: A CASE REPORT

This case report describes a 28 year old male patient presenting with low-grad fever, symmetricalpolyarthritis, rash on palms, neck and trunk, oral ulcers and cervical, axillary and hilar lymphadenopathy.other systemic examination was unremarkable. patient was diagnosed as kikuchi-fujimoto's disease onthe basis of lymph node histopathology, which showed the pathognomonic “acute histiocytic necrotizinglymphadenitis”. concurrently diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) was also made because ofthe presence of five out of eleven criteria for the diagnosis of sle. the five criteria which were present inthis patient were oral ulcers, arthritis, proteinuria of 1295 mg/24 hrs, positive antinuclear antibody andpositive anti-double stranded dna