Epithelioid hemangioma of the temporal artery clinically mimicking temporal arteritis

Pathology International

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 831-835

  Kitamura, Hajime ^a   Kitamura, Hitoshi ^b   Ito, Susumu ^a   Kuwana, Nobumasa ^a   Yutani, Chikao ^c  

^a Yokohama Minami Kyosai Hospital   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia; Epithelioid hemangioma; Temporal artery

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; TEMPORAL ARTERY;

AGED; ANGIOLYMPHOID HYPERPLASIA WITH EOSINOPHILIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPITHELIOID CELLS; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; TEMPORAL ARTERIES; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032693224     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1827.1999.00949.x     Document Type: Article

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