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Adult Recurrence of Kawasaki Disease Mimicking Retropharyngeal Abscess

Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute, self-limited vasculitis of unknown etiology that occurs predominantly in young children (≤5 years of age). We herein report the case of an 18-year-old Japanese man with a history of incomplete KD during infancy; later, despite an initial diagnosis of retropharyngea...

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Autores principales: Hibino, Makoto, Urabe, Yuko, Horiuchi, Shigeto, Uchida, Yuji, Miyahara, Kiyoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5596287/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28781314
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.8399-16