Parotitis coexisting with Kawasaki disease in a child: a rare presentation of Kawasaki disease
Articles > Article · 2019
Authors: Şule GÖKÇE, Nida Uysal, Hasret Erkmen, Eser Doğan, Feyza Koç
Tropical Doctor, International, WoS, 2019, vol 49, pp 217-221
Summary
Kawasaki disease (KD), also known as mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome and infantile polyarteritis nodosa, is known to present in multiple ways. Although inflammatory changes in several systems have been reported in KD, there are few documented child patients presenting with parotitis. We report such a case in a five-year-old.