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KD :

Kawasaki disease

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  1. Department of Paediatrics, Koshigaya Municipal Hospital, 10-47-1, Higashi-koshigaya, Koshigaya-shi, 343, Saitama, Japan

    Kazunari Kaneko, Atsushi Unno, Masatoshi Takagi, Takeshi Maruyama & Kaoru Obinata

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Kaneko, K., Unno, A., Takagi, M. et al. Kawasaki disease in dizygotic twins. Eur J Pediatr 154, 868 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01959805

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