Light-chain amyloidosis mimicking giant cell arteritis in a bilateral anterior ischemic optic neuropathy case

BACKGROUND: Herein we report a case of bilateral anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (AION) showing histopathologic evidence of AL-amyloidosis of the temporal arteries. It is known that light-chain (AL) amyloidosis may rarely affect the temporal arteries, mimicking giant cell arteritis, while, to our...

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Autores principales: Neri, Alberto, Rubino, Pierangela, Macaluso, Claudio, Gandolfi, Stefano A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3878227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24359546
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2415-13-82

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