The use of the color Doppler ultrasonography in the diagnosis and monitoring of an atypical case of giant-cell arteritis.
Acta Reumatol Port
; 41(2): 165-6, 2016.
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| ID: mdl-27606478
ABSTRACT
Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA) is a large vessels vasculitis that is typically characterised by headache, scalp tenderness, jaw claudication and visual disturbances. Temporal arteries color Doppler ultrasonography (CDUS) is a sensitive and non-invasive image technique used in the diagnosis of this disease. This work highlights the importance of CDUS in the diagnostic workup of GCA and also demonstrates it´s usefullness in the evaluation and documentation of the response to corticosteroids therapy in an atypical case of ACG.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Arterite de Células Gigantes
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Ultrassonografia Doppler em Cores
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2016
Tipo de documento:
Article