International Journal of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

The case of Kikuchi Lymphadenopathy

Joint Event on 7^th Edition of International Conference on Pain Management & 8^th Edition of International Conference on Internal Medicine & Patient Care
March 25-26, 2019 Rome, Italy

Liakou Chrysoula, Platis Yannis, Galanis Dimitrios, Polychronopoulos George, Georgiadis Thomas and Krikeli Eleftheria

Mitera General Hospital of Athens, Greece

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Int J Anesth Pain Med

DOI: 10.21767/2471-982X-C1-006

Abstract

A twenty-seven year old female without significant past medical history presented with a swollen, painful lymph node in the posterior auricular area for the past two months. Initially she was treated with antibiotics for otitis or other non specific ear inflammation without any improvement. The patient continued having lymphadenopathy and eventually she was hospitalized for further investigation. Imaging studies, infectious disease work-up and hematological work-up did not show any abnormal findings . Finally, lymph node excision and biopsy was performed which revealed Kikuchi disease.

Biography

Dr. Liakou has completed her MD from the University of Ioannina Greece and her PhD degree on Experimental Pathology from the University of Athens Greece. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship in Tumor Immunology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and internal medicine residency at the University of Kentucky. She has published more than 10 papers and has been serving as an editorial board member. Dr. Krikeris holds and MD from The University of Athens Medical School. She completed her internal medicine residency at the Beth Israel - Lawrence General Hospital. She holds a Med. SG from Harvard University and she has been a Teaching Fellow at Boston University. She is currently the Director of the First Department of Internal Medicine at Mitera Hospital and the Chief Division.

E-mail: mail@cliakou.gr elkrikeli@mitera.gr