Diagnosing temporal arteritis: duplex vs. biopsy
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Clinical and biopsy findings in temporal arteritis.
Hutchinson (1890) described a man aged 80 years who was prevented from wearing his hat by painful, inflamed temporal arteries. Horton, Magath, and Brown (1932) described two more patients and called the syndrome temporal arteritis. Originally thought to be a localized, self-limiting, and benign disorder, inflammation of the temporal arteries is often part of a widespread arteritis (Cooke, Cloak...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: QJM
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1460-2725,1460-2393
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcm103