Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Kikuchi disease (histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis) is a rare, non-cancerous enlargement of the lymph nodes: the diagnosis can be confirmed by lymph node biopsy. Kikuchi disease has been reported in association with infections with Epstein-Barr virus, human herpesvirus 6, toxoplasmosis, and human T-cell leukemia lymphoma virus 1. For other causes of lymph node enlargement see lymphadenopathy. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.