Kawasaki disease: Clustering in infants and pre-school children in Kuwait

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-37

  Jawad, Naheda H ^a   Shaltout, Azza ^b   Al Momen, Jawad ^a   Nahar, Ahmad ^a  

^a AL AMIRI HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; HUMAN; HYDROPS; INFANT; INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS; KUWAIT; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; MYOCARDITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 0031044419     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724936.1997.11747860     Document Type: Article

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