Adult onset Kawasaki disease presenting with acute epiglottitis findings
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Adult onset Kawasaki disease presenting with acute epiglottitis findings.
Kawasaki disease (KD) is a mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, and was first described in Japan in 1967. Physiopathologically, it is an acute necrotizing vasculitis of the mediumand small-sized arteries. According to surveillance research from 2013 to 2014 in Japan, the sex ratio (male/female) was 1.28. KD often occurs in children and adult cases are very rare. The incidence rate (from 0 to 4 ye...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1808-8694
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjorl.2017.09.001