Incomplete Kawasaki disease with intermittent fever and retropharyngeal inflammation

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2012 Apr;31(4):417-8. doi: 10.1097/INF.0b013e3182447a6c.

Abstract

Kawasaki disease is a systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology, presenting typically in infants and young children. We report a rare case of incomplete Kawasaki disease in a 15-month-old male infant presenting with symptoms mimicking retropharyngeal abscess and intermittent fever.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Fever / diagnosis*
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Male
  • Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome / complications*
  • Retropharyngeal Abscess / diagnosis*
  • Retropharyngeal Abscess / pathology*