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Harry M. Bauer, MD
Sherman Oaks, Calif

Virginia A. Anderson, MD
University of Rochester Rochester, NY

JAMA. 1980;244(21):2416.

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To the Editor.—

The letters between James K. Todd, MD, and E. Dale Everett, MD (243:1631, 1980), concerning the question of whether mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MLNS) (Kawasaki disease) can occur in adults are of interest to us as authors of a report on this syndrome in an adult (discussed with Dr Kawasaki in 1976 before submission of our report for publication).¹

Our patient was a 30-year-old woman, the patients described by Everett (242:542, 1979) were women aged 16 to 27 years, and another patient reported on² was an 18-year-old woman. The ages are all well beyond the range reported by Kawasaki et al.³ Nevertheless, the signs exhibited by these patients conform to the six principal features and to many of the secondary features listed by Kawasaki. Kawasaki's graph of age distribution of MLNS shows a peak in the second year, but does not go to zero . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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