Images in Clinical Medicine

Kim Eagle, M.D., Editor

Kawasaki's Disease

Jonathan D.K. Trager, M.D.

N Engl J Med 1995; 333:1391November 23, 1995

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Figure 1 Photographs of a four-year-old boy show the typical features of Kawasaki's disease. These features include bilateral nonexudative conjunctivitis (Panel A); dry, fissured, erythematous lips and a “strawberry” tongue (Panels A and B); erythematous and edematous hands and feet (Panels C and D); an erythematous truncal rash (Panel E); and a desquamating perineal rash (Panel F). the patient also had anterior cervical lymphadenopathy and sterile pyuria but none of the other complications of the disease. The child recovered uneventfully after receiving treatment with intravenous immune globulin and aspirin.

Kim Eagle, M.D.

Jonathan D.K. Trager, M.D.
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213