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differential diagnosis of regional lymphadenopathy & acute encephalitis
Differential diagnosis:
1) infection
- cat scratch disease (Bartonella henselae)
- tuberculosis
- toxoplasmosis
- HIV1 infection
- Q fever (Coxiella burnetti)
- tularemia (Francisella tularensis)
- Mycoplasma infection
- fungal infection
- pyogenic infection with abscess
2) autoimmune disease
- sarcoidosis
- histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis (Kikuchi's disease) C3) other
- lymphoma
Related
encephalitis
lymphadenopathy
General
differential diagnosis
References
- Wyllie E, Rincon SP, Pierce VM
Case 16-2015 - A 9-Year-Old Girl with Loss of Consciousness
and Seizures.
N Engl J Med 2015; 372:2050-2058. May 21, 2015
PMID: 25992750
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMcpc1501149