Mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome in two siblings.

Kawasaki disease in siblings.

We report a case of mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, which was diagnosed in a 13 month old boy two years after the death of his sister from the same disease.

Cross-sectional echocardiographic diagnosis of coronary artery aneurysms in patients with the mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome.

Real-time cross-sectional echocardiographic studies revealed the presence of coronary artery aneurysms in five patients with mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome. These lesions appeared as circular echo-free spaces with clearly-defined borders in sites corresponding to angiographically proven aneurysms. In 15 normal subjects who were studied only by noninvasive methods, and in 17 who had normal co...

Cushing’s syndrome associated with typical, peripheral pulmonary carcinoid tumor and N2 lymph node metastasis: case report

Background: The bronchopulmonary carcinoid tumor accounts for 1-2% of all adult malignancies of the lung and 20-30% of all carcinoid tumors. Cushing’s syndrome is the result of chronic exposure to increased concentration of exogenous or endo-genus cortisol hormone, and it is generally associated with central obesity, metabolic syndrome, and hypertension. Treatment is based on decreasing cortiso...

Pediatric acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome with characteristic desquamation of fingers and toes: my clinical observation of fifty cases*

Unstable angina in a patient with mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome.

An 11-year-old boy with mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, who later developed an acute anteroseptal infarction and unstable angina, is presented. Anginal attacks were shown by 24-hour long-term ambulatory electrocardiographic recording. He was shown to have multiple coronary aneurysms with thrombi, and underwent a successful aorto-coronary bypass.