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MONONEURITIS MULTIPLEX AND OCCIPITAL INFARCTION COMPLICATING GIANT CELL ARTERITIS
Southmead General Hospital, Westbury-on-Trym Bristol BS10 5NB
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Correspondence to Dr. I. T. Ferguson, Department of Neurology, Southmead Hospital, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol.
A 67-year-old lady with giant cell arteritis presented with a normal erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and developed occipital infarction and mononeuritis multiplex shortly after being started on high dose steroids.
KEY WORDS: Corticosteroids, Erythrocyte sedimentation rate, Neuropathy