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necrotizing adenitis
Thursday 8 March 2007
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necrotizing lymphadenitis : Coccidioides immitis / San Joaquin Valley Fever
Digital cases
HPC:154 : Mycobacterial adenitis
HPC:293 : Nodal cat scratch disease
HPC:339 : Kikuchi adenitis (necrotizing histiocytic lymphadenitis).
JRC:991 : Kikuchi’s lymphadenitis in a 27 y/o female.
Definition: Association of nodal inflammation (adenitis) with nodal necrosis.
Etiology
infectious necrotizing adenitis
- mycobacterial necrotizing adenitis
- tuberculous necrotizing adenitis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis)
- Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis necrotizing adenitis (16940849)
- nodal tularemia
- nodal histoplasmosis (Histoplasma capsulatum)
- Coccidioides immitis / coccidioidomycosis / San Joaquin Valley Fever
dysimmune necrotizing adenitis
- lupic necrotizing adenitis
- Kikuchi adenitis (Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease or histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis)
tumoral necrotizing adenitis
See also
Adenitis
- nodal necrosis
Kikuchi disease (Kikuchi adenitis)
lupic necrotizing adenitis
adenitis
