Kawasaki's disease: features
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Fever
Eye: perilimbic sparing conjunctival injection
Adenopathy: usually cervical
Rash
Mouth: red lips
Extremities: red hands and feet
· Disease to be feared because of risk of coronary aneurysms.
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Mucosal involvement like dry chapped lips and strawberry tongue
Hands and feet with edema and desquamation (late in the disease)
Eyes non purulent bilateral conjunctivitis
Adenopathy often cervical unilateral > 1.5 cm lymph nodes enlargement
Rash usually truncal and pleomorphic
Temperature non remitting fever for at least five days
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