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41. A common rheumatology referral of vague constitutional symptoms and raised inflammatory markers

INTRODUCTION: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is an inflammatory process affecting the medium/large vessels. Initially, the symptoms are vague constitutional symptoms caused by systemic inflammation. It is a chronic, granulomatous inflammation which most classically causes headache (in the temporal/occip...

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Autor principal: Brock, James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6761440/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rap/rkz028.010