Atypical Kawasaki disease - A clinical challenge

European Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 171, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 609-611

  Forsey, Jonathan ^a   Mertens, Luc ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CORONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; MYOCARDITIS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SEASONAL VARIATION; THROMBOCYTOSIS; VASCULITIS;

CHILD; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME;

EID: 84860265885     PISSN: 03406199     EISSN: 14321076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00431-011-1629-9     Document Type: Editorial

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