Kikuchi disease as a possible cause of ischaemic stroke: a case report.

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION: Kikuchi disease (KFD) is a rare and self-limiting benign disease which usually occurs in young women. The difference between our case and the previous case is that the initial symptom of this case is transient ischemic attack (TIA). METHODS: A 46-year-old female patient presented at the clinic with a 2-week history of paroxysmal left limb weakness and fever. Imaging examinations showed the multiple lymph nodes in neck enlarged bilaterally. Finally, we arranged a lymph node biopsy for the patient. RESULTS: The resulted of lymph node biopsy showed the disorder of lymph node structures, widespread histiocytic infiltration and cell nucleus fragments, suggesting KFD. CONCLUSION: TIA as a complication of KFD has never been reported in the previous literature, which provided a new direction for diagnosis of TIA and suggested that KFD may be a rare cause of ischemic stroke.