Typical strawberry tongue of a child with Kawasaki disease

Recently, India’s B.P. Poddar Hospital and Research Center reported a case of Kawasaki Disease, published in the New England Journal of Medicine. An eight-year-old girl went to the hospital for [rash with fever for one week]. Physical examination showed diffuse macula, crack on lips and strawberry tongue. Her body temperature was 39 ℃. Conjunctival congestion in both eyes, swelling of some cervical lymph nodes, redness of palms and metatarsus, mild eczema in both hands and desquamation of palms were found. Heart examination showed no abnormality. Laboratory examination revealed leukocytosis of 13 000/cubic millimeter (normal range is 3 500 ~ 10 500/cubic millimeter); The erythrocyte sedimentation rate was high (80 mm/h) (normal range was 0 ~ 29 mm/h). There were no Read More …