High procalcitonin and thrombocytopenic purpura in a case of Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease.

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease is a mild and rare idiopathic disease, particularly in children. It is mostly characterized by painful cervical lymphadenopathy and/or prolonged fever and confirmed by histology. We report a case of Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease in a 14-year-old teenager with high procalcitonin concentration and thrombocytopenic purpura.

A child with mutism after bilateral thalamic infarction.

The occurence of mutism after thalamic lesions has rarely been observed before adulthood. We report a 6.5-year-old girl who presented with sudden mutism with a decreased level of alertness.