Clinical and biopsy findings in temporal arteritis.
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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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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
سال: 1968
ISSN: 0003-4967
DOI: 10.1136/ard.27.3.271