Delayed Diagnosis of Biopsy-Negative Giant Cell Arteritis Presenting as Fever of Unknown Origin

Fever of unknown origin (FUO) presents a diagnostic challenge. Giant cell arteritis (GCA) may present with FUO and this entity should be included in the differential of elderly patients who present with constitutional symptoms. While a temporal artery biopsy is considered the gold standard for the d...

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Main Authors: Schäfer, Valentin S., Warrington, Kenneth J., Williamson, Eric E., Kermani, Tanaz A.
Format: Artigo
Jezik:Inglês
Izdano: Springer-Verlag 2009
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Case Reports/Clinical Vignettes
Online dostop:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2659161/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19224291
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-009-0925-9
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