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Plasma exchange for refractory Kawasaki disease

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  1. Department of Paediatrics, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, 3-9 Fukuura, Kanazawa-ku, 236-0004, Yokohama , Japan

    Tomoyuki Imagawa, Masaaki Mori, Takako Miyamae, Shuichi Ito, Tomoko Nakamura, Kiyoshi Yasui & Shumpei Yokota

  2. Department of Public Health, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

    Hirokazu Kimura

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T. Imagawa and M. Mori contributed equally to this paper.

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Imagawa, T., Mori, M., Miyamae, T. et al. Plasma exchange for refractory Kawasaki disease. Eur J Pediatr 163, 263–264 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-003-1267-y

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