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. 1989 Mar;64(3):398–399. doi: 10.1136/adc.64.3.398

Kawasaki disease in siblings.

M Hewitt 1, L J Smith 1, H S Joffe 1, T L Chambers 1
PMCID: PMC1791907  PMID: 2650638

Abstract

We report a case of mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, which was diagnosed in a 13 month old boy two years after the death of his sister from the same disease.

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