Extreme thrombocytosis predicts Kawasaki disease in infants

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 446-452

  Nigrovic, Lise E ^a   Nigrovic, Peter A ^a,b   Harper, Marvin B ^a   Chiang, Vincent W ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HIGH RISK INFANT; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOSIS;

AGE FACTORS; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; PLATELET COUNT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOCYTOSIS;

EID: 33747460384     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922806289621     Document Type: Article

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