Japanese Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Online ISSN : 2186-1579
Print ISSN : 0021-5163
ISSN-L : 0021-5163
Cat scratch disease: Report of a case
Nobuhiko KOHNO
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1987 Volume 33 Issue 2 Pages 331-334

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Abstract
Cat scratch disease developed on submental region of a 17-year-old girl was reported.
The patient visited our clinic with complaints of swollen submental region and slight tenderness.Chemotherapy of antibiotics or steroid hormone against this lymphadenopathy were not effective.Examination of enucleated lymphonodes by a pathologist resulted in a diagnosis of cat scratch disease that marked growth of epithelioid cells and multiple small abscess.Further, about two months previously, she had been scratched submental region by a cat.
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