Het syndroom van Kawasaki (mucocutaan lymfekliersyndroom)

Vandekerckhove, K; D, Van Gysel; Bruylants, Bruno

doi:10.2143/tvg.57.3.1000959

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“…The skin lesions are never bullous, as they can be in Stevens–Johnson syndrome. There are no mucosal lesions with bullae leading to oral ulcers, and there is no involvement of the genitals (1,7,8). The conjunctival injection is nonpurulent.…”

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Stevens–Johnson Syndrome: A Diagnostic Challenge in the Absence of Skin Lesions

Vanfleteren

Gysel

2003

Pediatric Dermatology

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We report a 14-year-old boy with Stevens-Johnson syndrome who presented with mucous membrane lesions but without skin lesions and discuss the differential diagnosis of oral mucous membrane lesions in childhood. Stevens-Johnson syndrome in children is most frequently caused by a Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. The full clinical picture of Stevens-Johnson syndrome can be present before seroconversion of Mycoplasma antibodies is observed. One should keep in mind that one negative titer of Mycoplasma antibodies does not rule out M. pneumoniae infection.

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