Rheumatology Vol. 43 No. 8 © British Society for Rheumatology 2004; all rights reserved
Letter to the Editor |
Bilateral anterior uveitis as an unusual manifestation of KikuchiFujimoto disease
Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University and 1 Department of Pathology, 2 Department of Infectious Diseases and 3 Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul, Korea
Correspondence to: K. H. Park, Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, #300 Kumi-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam city, Kyunggi Province, Korea. E-mail: jiani4@snu.ac.kr
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SIR, KikuchiFujimoto disease (KFD) is a subacute necrotizing lymphadenitis of unknown origin and is usually a self-limited cause of fever and lymph node enlargement [1]. KFD may be associated with a wide spectrum of immune diseases, such as polymyositis [2], systemic lupus erythematosus [3], arthritis [4] and uveitis [5]. However, as far as we are aware the simultaneous development of KFD and uveitis has not been reported. Here, we present the first case of KFD involving the