Six patients with Kawasaki disease showing retropharyngeal low-density areas on computed tomography

Pediatrics International

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Ueda, Yuki ^a   Saita, Yoshinori ^a   Matsuzawa, Tohru ^a   Wada, Tetsuji ^a   Kanai, Naoki ^a   Kobayashi, Ichiro ^a  

^a Kitami Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

hypoalbuminemia; hyponatremia; Kawasaki disease; liver dysfunction; retropharyngeal abscess

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BCG VACCINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFOPERAZONE; CLINDAMYCIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; SULPERAZON; SULTAMICILLIN;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONJUNCTIVAL DEPOSIT; CONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FOOT SOLE; HAND PALM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; JAPANESE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MOUTH DISEASE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; NECK INJURY; NECK PAIN; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RASH; RETROPHARYNGEAL ABSCESS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROLOGY; SIDE EFFECT; THROAT CULTURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TRISMUS;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; PHARYNX; RETROPHARYNGEAL ABSCESS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77955791231     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: 1442200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.2010.03115.x     Document Type: Article

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