Characterization of Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells, Microbial Sequences, and Identification of a Candidate Public T-Cell Clone in Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease.
Nya D NelsonWenzhao MengAaron M RosenfeldSusan BullmanChandra Sekhar PedamalluJason L NomburgGerald B WertheimMichele E PaesslerGeraldine PinkusJason L HornickMatthew MeyersonEline T Luning PrakVinodh PillaiPublished in: Pediatric and developmental pathology : the official journal of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology Society (2021)
Digital quantification of CD123 IHC can distinguish KFD from other necrotizing lymphadenitides. The presence of a unique shared CDR3 sequence suggests that a shared antigen underlies KFD pathogenesis.