A Case of Giant Cell Arteritis Presenting As Catastrophic Posterior Circulation Stroke: A Diagnostic Dilemma

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is an immune-mediated systemic vasculitis usually seen in the older population. We describe a case of a 75-year-old woman who presented with jaw claudication and temporal headache. A colour duplex ultrasonography and later biopsy of the temporal arteries confirmed GCA and...

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Autores principales: Wong, Joshua, Chan, Siang, Shetty, Ashit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9375518/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35975095
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27961

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