Kawasaki Disease Mimicking Retropharyngeal Abscess

Kawasaki disease is an acute, self-limiting febrile mucocutaneous vasculitis of infants and young children. Retropharyngeal lymphadenopathy is a rare presentation of Kawasaki disease. We present a case of Kawasaki disease mimicking a retropharyngeal abscess, with upper airway obstruction resulting i...

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Autores principales: Ganesh, Ramaswamy, Srividhya, Vazhkudai Sridharan, Vasanthi, Thiruvengadam, Shivbalan, Somu
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Yonsei University College of Medicine 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2908875/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20635457
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2010.51.5.784
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author Ganesh, Ramaswamy
Srividhya, Vazhkudai Sridharan
Vasanthi, Thiruvengadam
Shivbalan, Somu
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Vasanthi, Thiruvengadam
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description Kawasaki disease is an acute, self-limiting febrile mucocutaneous vasculitis of infants and young children. Retropharyngeal lymphadenopathy is a rare presentation of Kawasaki disease. We present a case of Kawasaki disease mimicking a retropharyngeal abscess, with upper airway obstruction resulting in delayed diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-29088752010-09-01 Kawasaki Disease Mimicking Retropharyngeal Abscess Ganesh, Ramaswamy Srividhya, Vazhkudai Sridharan Vasanthi, Thiruvengadam Shivbalan, Somu Yonsei Med J Case Report Kawasaki disease is an acute, self-limiting febrile mucocutaneous vasculitis of infants and young children. Retropharyngeal lymphadenopathy is a rare presentation of Kawasaki disease. We present a case of Kawasaki disease mimicking a retropharyngeal abscess, with upper airway obstruction resulting in delayed diagnosis. Yonsei University College of Medicine 2010-09-01 2010-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC2908875/ /pubmed/20635457 http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2010.51.5.784 Text en © Copyright: Yonsei University College of Medicine 2010 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Srividhya, Vazhkudai Sridharan
Vasanthi, Thiruvengadam
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Kawasaki Disease Mimicking Retropharyngeal Abscess
title Kawasaki Disease Mimicking Retropharyngeal Abscess
title_full Kawasaki Disease Mimicking Retropharyngeal Abscess
title_fullStr Kawasaki Disease Mimicking Retropharyngeal Abscess
title_full_unstemmed Kawasaki Disease Mimicking Retropharyngeal Abscess
title_short Kawasaki Disease Mimicking Retropharyngeal Abscess
title_sort kawasaki disease mimicking retropharyngeal abscess
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2908875/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20635457
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2010.51.5.784
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