Negative temporal artery biopsies: Eventual diagnoses and features of patients with biopsy-negative giant cell arteritis compared to patients without arteritis

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1103-1106

  Breuer, Gabriel S ^a,b   Nesher, Ronit ^c,d   Nesher, Gideon ^a,e,f  

^a SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^f SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Erythrocyte sedimentation rate; Giant cell arteritis; Polymyalgia rheumatica; Temporal arteritis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; PREDNISONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL BIOPSY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG RESPONSE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FOLLOW UP; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; TEMPORAL ARTERY; THROMBOCYTOSIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANOREXIA; BIOPSY; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HEADACHE; HUMANS; POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOULDER PAIN; TEMPORAL ARTERIES; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 59149098257     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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