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Giant cell arteritis with cervical radiculopathy mimicking polymyalgia rheumatica and elderly-onset rheumatoid arthritis: a case report

BACKGROUND: Giant cell arteritis has a wide variety of clinical symptoms, one of them being cervical radiculopathy, which mainly involves the C5 nerve root. If the patient does not develop typical clinical symptoms of giant cell arteritis but has C5 radiculopathy, it may be misdiagnosed as polymyalg...

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Autores principales: Nakabayashi, Akihiko, Ikai, Hiroki, Katada, Yoshinori
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8527715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34666810
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-021-03107-7