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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on November 1, 2005
Rheumatology 2005 44(12):1579-1580; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kei180
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Difficulties in the development of histological scoring of the inflamed temporal arteries in giant cell arteritis

A. Bharadwaj, B. Dasgupta, K. Wolfe, C. Nordborg1 and E. Nordborg1

Southend Hospital NHS Trust, Essex, UK and 1 Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden

Correspondence to: B. Dasgupta, Department of Rheumatology, Southend Hospital NHS Trust, Prittlewell Chase, Westcliff on Sea, Essex SS0 0RY, UK. E-mail: bhaskar.dasgupta@southend.nhs.uk

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SIR, Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a focal, granulomatous inflammation of medium and small-sized arteries in the elderly. Loss of vision occurs early and can be a presenting feature in 21.2% of patients [1]. The prognostic factors associated with neuro-ophthalmic complications are not entirely clear.

Temporal artery biopsy (TAB) is a clinically useful test with high predictive power [2]. A recent retrospective audit of 84 patients with TAB for suspected diagnosis of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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