Colour duplex sonography of temporal arteries before decision for biopsy: a prospective study in 55 patients with suspected giant cell arteritis

Although a temporal artery biopsy is the gold standard for the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis (GCA), there is considerable evidence that characteristic signs demonstrated by colour duplex sonography (CDS) of the temporal arteries may be of diagnostic importance. We aimed to test the hypothesis th...

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Autores principales: Karahaliou, Maria, Vaiopoulos, George, Papaspyrou, Spiros, Kanakis, Meletios A, Revenas, Konstantinos, Sfikakis, Petros P
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1779378/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16859533
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/ar2003

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