All That Childhood Coronary Artery Aneurysms Are Not Kawasaki Disease!

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, 605006, India.
² Department of Pediatrics, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, 605006, India. gr_jaikumar@yahoo.in.
³ Department of Cardiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India.
⁴ Department of Pathology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India.

Darshan Rangaswamy et al. Indian J Pediatr. 2021 Jan.

. 2021 Jan;88(1):97-98.

doi: 10.1007/s12098-020-03477-8. Epub 2020 Aug 26.

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, 605006, India.
² Department of Pediatrics, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, 605006, India. gr_jaikumar@yahoo.in.
³ Department of Cardiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India.
⁴ Department of Pathology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India.

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