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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...
Autores principales: | Cristaudo, Adam Thomas, Mizumoto, Ryo, Hendahewa, Rasika |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier
2016
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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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