A Severe Form of Kawasaki Disease Presenting with Only Fever and Cervical Lymphadenopathy at Admission

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 156, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 786-791

  Nomura, Yuichi ^a   Arata, Michiko ^b   Koriyama, Chihaya ^a   Masuda, Kiminori ^b   Morita, Yasuko ^b   Hazeki, Daisuke ^a   Ueno, Kentaro ^a   Eguchi, Taisuke ^a   Kawano, Yoshifumi ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kagoshima City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ARTICLE; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; FEVER; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; INFANT; LYMPHADENITIS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; NECK;

EID: 77950519279     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2009.11.042     Document Type: Article

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