Characteristic Distribution Pattern of CD30-positive Cytotoxic T Cells Aids Diagnosis of Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease

Tetsuya Tabata, Katsuyoshi Takata, Tomoko Miyata‐Takata, Yasuharu Sato, Shin Ishizawa, Tomoyoshi Kunitomo, Keina Nagakita, Nobuhiko Ohnishi, Kohei Taniguchi, Mai Noujima‐Harada,

Applied immunohistochemistry & molecular morphology · 2016 · 13 citations · 16 references

Abstract

In Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease cases, CD30-positive cytotoxic T cells were abundant around necrotic areas; this histologic feature may be helpful to differentiate this disease from SLE and RLH.

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