The impact of temporal artery biopsy on surgical practice

BACKGROUND: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) has the potential to cause irreversible blindness and stroke in affected patients [1–4]. Temporal artery biopsy (TAB) remains the gold standard test for GCA [6–8]. Recent literature suggests that TAB does not change management of patients with suspected GCA and...

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Autores principales: Cristaudo, Adam Thomas, Mizumoto, Ryo, Hendahewa, Rasika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5037119/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27699002
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2016.09.004

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5037119/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27699002
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2016.09.004

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