title: [Giant cells arteritis. A disease previously reported as various syndromes (author's transl)].
abstract: Thirteen cases of giant cell arteritis admitted to a Department of Internal Medicine between 1962 and 1977 are reviewed. Giant cell arteritis exhibited different clinical forms, including: temporal arteritis, rheumatic polymyalgia, syndrome of the supra-aortic trunks, cranial arteritis in its ophthalmic and neurologic forms, and generalized arteritis. On the basis of the clinical data, overall examinations, laboratory tests, X-rays, angiograms and histopathologic findings the authors conclude that a single disease is involved. The fact that various of the symptoms occur simultaneously in different patients and that all of the clinical forms have a common pathologic basis points toward giant cell arteritis with different clinical manifestations.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D013700:Giant Cell Arteritis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013699:Temporal Arteries / Q000473:pathology
vernacular_title: Arteritis de células gigantes. Enfermedad históricamente descrita como distintos síndromes.