[Kawasaki syndrome].

Kawasaki's syndrome is an acute multisystem vasculitis typical for childhood characterized by fever, conjunctivitis, stomatitis, swelling of cervical lymph-nodes, exanthema and desquamation of extremities. The etiology is so far unknown, the latest hypothesis formulated are reported. Cardiac involvement and particularly coronary aneurysmal dilatation is the most severe and characteristic SK complication.