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Kawasaki disease

Background

Kawasaki disease: Mucocutaneous Lymph Node syndrome

Kawasaki disease is an acute illness predominantly affecting young children that was first described in 1967 by Dr Kawasaki in Japan.

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Medical text written May 1996 by Professor M Levin, Professor of Paediatrics, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London, UK. Last reviewed April 2007 by Dr A J Pollard, Reader in Paediatric Infection and Immunity, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

 

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