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Tongue infarction as first symptom of temporal arteritis
- Source :
- Rheumatology international. 32(3)
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common systemic vasculitis affecting people over 50 years. This disease is a diagnostic challenge with a range of clinical symptoms and findings due to different affected vessels. Because of this, the initial diagnosis can be tricky, and some of the patients present at first time with a real unusual initial manifestation. One of these can be tongue necrosis, which is according to the literature in accordance with scalp necrosis, the rarest initial manifestation of GCA We describe a patient who presented with tongue necrosis as initial symptom of GCA. The belated diagnose resulted in subtotal necrosis of the mobile part of the tongue.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Immunology
Giant Cell Arteritis
Infarction
Tongue Diseases
Necrosis
Rheumatology
Tongue
Internal medicine
medicine
Immunology and Allergy
Humans
Arteritis
Glucocorticoids
Aged
business.industry
medicine.disease
Dermatology
Surgery
Giant cell arteritis
medicine.anatomical_structure
Treatment Outcome
Tongue disease
Debridement
Scalp
cardiovascular system
Prednisone
Female
business
Systemic vasculitis
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1437160X
- Volume :
- 32
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Rheumatology international
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b1e62c7f353d1139cc204c71cac4a8a0