Diagnosing Kawasaki syndrome: The need for a new clinical tool

Rheumatology

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 959-961

  Simonini, Gabriele ^b   Rose C D ^a,c   Vierucci, A ^b   Falcini, F ^b   Athreya, B H ^a  

^a NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; SODIUM; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANAMNESIS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; PATHOGENESIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; STANDARDIZATION; THROMBOCYTOSIS; BLOOD; INFANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME;

EID: 24944446063     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keh593     Document Type: Editorial

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