Is Kawasaki disease incidence rising in Chandigarh, North India?

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 137-140

  Singh, Surjit ^a   Aulakh, Roosy ^a   Bhalla, Anil Kumar ^a   Suri, Deepti ^a   Manojkumar, Rohit ^a   Narula, Nidhi ^a   Burns, Jane C ^b  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREND STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; SEASONS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78651429883     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2010.194001     Document Type: Article

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