Widened coronary arteries in a feverish child

Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 515-518

  Van Doorn, H Rogier ^a   Lo A Njoe, Shirley M ^a   Ottenkamp, Jaap ^a   Pajkrt, Dasja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Infectious diseases; Kawasaki syndrome; Murine typhus; Rickettsiae

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RICKETTSIOSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SURINAME; VASCULITIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLARITHROMYCIN; CORONARY DISEASE; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYPHUS, ENDEMIC FLEA-BORNE;

EID: 33747085622     PISSN: 01720643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00246-006-1324-1     Document Type: Article

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