| Autor: |
de Faire, Ulf, Mellstedt, Håkan, Nordenstam, Hans |
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JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association; November 1976, Vol. 236 Issue: 22 p2491-2491, 1p |
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To the Editor.—In a recent issue of The Journal (234:496, 1975), Lie and his colleagues describe a juvenile form of temporal arteritis. All four cases (two young adults and two children) had a painless nodule in the temporal region. No characteristic symptoms of the classical form of temporal arteritis were seen. Histologic examination of the lesions showed non-giant-cell granulomatous inflammation of the temporal arteries. The authors propose that these lesions might represent a new entity of juvenile temporal arteritis.Temporal arteritis and the closely related disorder of polymyalgia rheumatica have since long been considered age-related diseases. In the first report of temporal arteritis, by Hutchinson in 1890,1 it was described as an "arteritis of the aged." However, sometimes it seems to affect also people under the age of 50 years. The youngest patient so far reported with biopsy-verified temporal arteritis is a 35-year old man.2 Recently, we have |
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