GIANT-CELL ARTERITIS - A CAUSE OF PYREXIA OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN

Authors
FIFE A DORRELL L SNOW MH ONG ELC
Citation
A. Fife et al., GIANT-CELL ARTERITIS - A CAUSE OF PYREXIA OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN, Scottish Medical Journal, 39(4), 1994, pp. 114-115
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Scottish Medical Journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
00369330
Volume
39
Issue
4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
114 - 115
Database
ISI
SICI code
0036-9330(1994)39:4<114:GA-ACO>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
Giant cell arteritis may present atypically with symptoms of malaise, anorexia, weight loss and fever that could lead to diagnostic difficul ties. We describe two cases which the prominent initial feature was pr otracted pyrexia. Clinicians should seriously consider temporal artery biopsy in such cases.