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- Title
Tongue infarction as first symptom of temporal arteritis.
- Authors
Husein-ElAhmed, Husein; Callejas-Rubio, Jose-Luis; Rios-Fernández, Raquel; Ortego-Centeno, Norberto
- 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
TONGUE diseases; INFARCTION; GIANT cell arteritis; NECROSIS; SYMPTOMS
- Publication
Rheumatology International, 2012, Vol 32, Issue 3, p799
- ISSN
0172-8172
- Publication type
Report
- DOI
10.1007/s00296-009-1355-z