Comment on failure to distinguish systemic-onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis from incomplete Kawasaki disease in an infant

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 677-678

  Jae, Il Shin ^a   Jae, Young Choi ^a   Dong, Soo Kim ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INTERLEUKIN 18;

CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; LETTER; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RASH; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ARTHRITIS, JUVENILE RHEUMATOID; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 54949083843     PISSN: 10344810     EISSN: 14401754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1754.2008.01402.x     Document Type: Letter

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