Theunissen, Prisca and Kliffen, Mike and Dees, Ad (2018) Giant-cell Arteritis of the Ovarian Arteries: A Rare Manifestation of a Common Disease. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 5 (5). ISSN 2284-2594
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Abstract
We describe a 58-year-old woman presenting with headache and an elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), who was diagnosed with and successfully treated for giant-cell arteritis (GCA). Seven months after the end of treatment, ovarian GCA was incidentally found after ovariectomy for a simple cyst. GCA of extracranial vessels like the ovarian arteries is rare. Nevertheless, we stress that extracranial GCA should be considered in patients older than 50 years with an elevated ESR, even if a temporal artery biopsy is negative or specific symptoms are absent. Moreover, we discuss the importance of imaging techniques when GCA of the extracranial large vessels is suspected.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Giant-cell arteritis, ovarian arteries, rare manifestation, vasculitis in female genital tract |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Chiara D'Arpa |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Aug 2018 08:08 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Aug 2018 08:08 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/18148 |
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