Kikuchi-Fugimoto disease (Cervical Subacute Necrotising Lymphadenitis): an important benign disease often masquerading as lymphoma.

Objectives: We describe a rare cause of posterior triangle cervical lymphadenopathy in a third decade female, outline the clinical and histopathological features and discuss excision biopsy as the investigation of choice in this age group, with lymphoma as the diagnosis of exclusion.

Case Report: A thirty-four year old female was referred to our Head and Neck clinic with a one-month history of left posterior triangle lymphadenopathy. She reported no other symptoms and haematological investigations were normal.