Features of Kawasaki disease at the extremes of age

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 423-427

  Lee, Kyung Yil ^a,c   Hong, Ja Hyun ^a   Han, Ji Whan ^a   Lee, Joon Sung ^a   Lee, Byung Churl ^a   Burgner, David ^b  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c Daejeon St Mary's Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Age; Child; Clinical features; Infant; Kawasaki disease; Laboratory features

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

AGING; ARTICLE; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLAMMATION; KOREA; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTOSIS;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KOREA; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33746345275     PISSN: 10344810     EISSN: 14401754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1754.2006.00898.x     Document Type: Article

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