Kawasaki disease

Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B: Physical and Biological Sciences

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 59-71

  Kawasaki, Tomisaku ^a  

^a Japan Kawasaki Disease Research Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome(MCLS); Coronary artery aneurysms; Infantile periarteritis nodosa(IPN); Kawasaki Disease (KD)

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645674580     PISSN: 03862208     EISSN: 03862208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2183/pjab.82.59     Document Type: Review

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