Clinical Criteria: Sensitivity and Specificity
Introduction:
None written. Excerpt from the entry in Kawasaki Disease:
as above, fever for 5 days plus at least 4/5: Bilateral conjunctival injection
Changes of the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract: injected pharynx; injected, fissured lips; strawberry tongue
Polymorphous rash
Changes of the extremities: peripheral oedema, peripheral erythema, periungual desquamation
Cervical adenopathy
as above, fever for 5 days plus at least 4/5:
Mimics (from the J Peds article) include measles and group A Strep
Associated Diagnoses:
90% sensitive, 54% specific