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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on December 20, 2005
Rheumatology 2006 45(2):240-241; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kei071
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Diagnosing Kawasaki syndrome

J. F. Bastian and H. I. Kushner1

Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, San Diego, CA and 1 Department of Behavioral Science and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

Correspondence to: J. F. Bastian. E-mail: jbastian@chsd.org

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SIR, We read with great interest the recent editorial on the need for a new tool for diagnosing Kawasaki syndrome/Kawasaki disease [1]. Our investigations of the history of the clinical criteria for Kawasaki syndrome [2–4] lead us to share a number of observations. Researchers have long noted that strict reliance on the classic case definition has led to delay in treatment of children who . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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