Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging (Jul 2016)

Unusual imaging presentation of infantile atypical Kawasaki disease

  • Nishith Kumar,
  • Mahesh Kumar Mittal,
  • Mukul Sinha,
  • Arpita Gupta,
  • Brij Bhushan Thukral

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.190415
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 03
pp. 373 – 376

Abstract

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Kawasaki disease is a systemic medium vessel vasculitis of unknown etiology affecting children under 5 years of age. There are no specific diagnostic tests, and thus, the diagnosis of the disease is primarily made on the basis of clinical criteria. Unusual presentations of Kawasaki disease have been variably reported from different parts of the world. However, presentation of the disease in the form of peripheral thromboembolism and florid non-coronary aneurysms has rarely been described This report describes the imaging findings in infantile atypical Kawasaki disease with aneurysms of multiple medium-sized arteries, including coronary arteries, emphasizing the detection of clinically silent aneurysms in the disease.

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