is an acute, febrile, self-limiting, systemic vasculitis of unknown origin that almost exclusively affects young children.
Clinically, it is characterised by fever, polymorphic rash, conjunctivitis, mucosal erythema with strawberry tongue, induration of the hands and feet, and unilateral cervical lymphadenopathy.
Morbidity and mortality depend on coronary aneurysms that develop in 20% to 25% of untreated patients.
Morbidity and mortality depend on coronary aneurysms that develop in 20% to 25% of untreated patients.
