title: Bilateral juvenile temporal arteritis.
abstract: Juvenile temporal arteritis (JTA) is an uncommon nongiant cell arteritis of the superficial temporal artery occurring exclusively in older children and young adults without a history of trauma or evidence of systemic disease or localized symptoms. Of the 6 cases reported to date, there has been no recurrence after a simple surgical excision of the nodular artery for cosmetic reasons. We describe the first known case of bilateral JTA in a 21-year-old man and differential diagnoses are discussed to distinguish JTA from the classic giant cell (temporal) arteritis of the elderly, which requires corticosteroid drug treatment.
authors.affiliation: UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA.
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Lie
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D013700:Giant Cell Arteritis / Q000145:classification / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013699:Temporal Arteries / Q000473:pathology