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Kawasaki disease misdiagnosed as acute pyelonephritis

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  1. Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Clinic for Children's Diseases, Medical School Skopje, Macedonia

    Nadica Ristoska-Bojkovska & Velibor Tasic

  2. Department of Immunology, Clinic for Children's Diseases, Medical School, Skopje, Macedonia

    Katarina Stavric

  3. Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Clinic for Children's Diseases, Medical School, 17 Vodnjanska, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia

    Velibor Tasic

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Ristoska-Bojkovska, N., Stavric, K. & Tasic, V. Kawasaki disease misdiagnosed as acute pyelonephritis. Pediatr Nephrol 18, 851–852 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00467-003-1218-x

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