Drug-induced hypersensivity syndrome associated with Epstein-Barr virus infection: a pediatric case report.

Drug hypersensitivity syndrome is an acute, severe, multi-organ systemic reaction, usually developing with aromatic antiepileptic drugs. Interaction between drug-induced hypersensivity syndrome and viral infections is debated. We report the first case of severe carbamazepine-induced hypersensivity syndrome associated with Epstein-Barr virus infection in a child.

Bilateral epididymitis associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection.

We describe a 7-year-old boy with bilateral epididymitis associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. The involvement of male genitalia presenting as the only manifestation of M. pneumoniae infection is rare.

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease is a rare cause of lymphadenopathy and fever of unknown origin in children: report of two cases and review of the literature.

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease, a benign and unusual self-limiting histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis of unknown origin, should be included in the differential diagnosis of lymphadenopathy and fever of unknown origin. This disease mostly affects young Asian women and has rarely been reported in children, thus remaining a poorly recognized entity that is frequently confused with malignant lymphoma. The authors describe two children with Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease, with particular attention to diagnostic approach and clinical and histologic features of the disease.