Incomplete Kawasaki disease with recurrent skin peeling: A case report with the review of literature

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 72-74

  Parmar, Ramesh C ^a   Somale, A ^a   Bavdekar, S B ^a   Muranjan, M N ^a  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Incomplete Kawasaki disease; Intravenous immunoglobulin; Skin peeling; Thrombocytosis; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; CONVALESCENCE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECURRENT DISEASE; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SKIN ABRASION; SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS; THROMBOCYTOSIS;

EID: 0038545445     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0022-3859.924     Document Type: Article

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