| Autor: |
Cantón De Seoane, Juan, Gutiérrez Guédez, Luis Alberto, Rodríguez Cambrón, Ana Belén, Burgos, Fernando |
| Zdroj: |
BMJ Case Reports; May2023, Vol. 16 Issue 5, p1-2, 2p |
| Abstrakt: |
Tongue necrosis is a rare clinical finding because of its rich vascularisation. Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most frequent cause of it, and when present, it is usually one side affected. We describe a patient with several months of constitutional syndrome; during that period, she develops headache followed by tongue necrosis, which lead to clinical suspicion of GCA, later confirmed by a temporal artery biopsy. Before the biopsy, she was treated with corticosteroids. We discuss this illness and tongue necrosis as a rare manifestation to consider. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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