The role of ultrasound in the diagnosis of temporal arteritis

Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 139-143

  Bajkó, Zoltán ^a,b   Bălaşa, Rodica ^a,b   Szatmári, Szabolcs ^a,b   Rusu, Silvia ^b   Moţăţăianu, Anca ^a,b   Maier, Smaranda ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^b Hematology Department   (Romania)

Author keywords

Giant cell arteritis; Temporal arteritis; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DEXAMETHASONE; FIBRINOGEN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; CORTICOSTEROID; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLAUDICATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HICCUP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NERVE PARALYSIS; NORMOCHROMIC NORMOCYTIC ANEMIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALPATION; SKIN DEFECT; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS; TEMPORAL ARTERY; THROMBOCYTOSIS; VERTIGO; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; BIOPSY; COMPLICATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; OSTEOPOROSIS; TEMPORAL ARTERIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 84936127953     PISSN: 00283843     EISSN: 18974260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pjnns.2015.03.003     Document Type: Article

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