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Horton's three sisters: familial clustering of temporal arteritis.
Clinical rheumatology - 1 Nov 2007
Raptis Lampros, Pappas Georgios, Akritidis Nikolaos
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The authors describe 3 histologically confirmed cases of temporal arteritis occurring in three siblings aged 62-72 years old, diagnosed from 1999 to 2005. Chapel Hill publication surrogate parameters combined with the American College of Rheumatology criteria for vasculitis were used in the diagnostic procedure. The diagnosis of temporal vasculitis was confirmed by right occipital artery excision and...
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