[Takayasu syndrome in Horton's disease].
Problems of diagnosis (including early diagnoses) and treatment of giant cell arteritis the commonest form of vasculitis in subjects above 50 years. An aged woman presenting with rheumatic polymyalgia is described in whom cell arteritis was diagnosed by positron emission tomography. Etiology of this disease and it medicamentous treatment are discussed with reference to the patients' age and concomitant pathologies.
Novikov
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Krivosheev
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Aslanidi
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Mukhortova
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D005260:Female; D013700:Giant Cell Arteritis / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D013625:Takayasu Arteritis / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging