[Mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (Kawasaki-syndrome) (author's transl)]

Four cases of acute mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (Kawasaki-Syndrome) are presented This syndrome of yet unknown cause is quite frequent in Japan but lately it is being encountered with growing frequency in Europe, too. The significant clinical and diagnostical features of the disease are laid out and differentialdiagnostical and therapeutical questions are discussed. 1-2% of the children die suddenly or coronary thrombosis. Analogies with infantile polyarteritis nodosa which can be equally lethal and Kawasaki-Syndrome are examined.