PP6. OUTCOMES OF PATIENTS UNDERGOING TEMPORAL ARTERY BIOPSY OF LESS THAN 1 CM LENGTH FOR SUSPECTED GIANT CELL ARTERITIS

Background: The cornerstone of diagnosis in giant cell arteritis (GCA) is temporal artery biopsy (TAB). The conventional wisdom is that long length biopsies be obtained but no consensus exists on optimum length of biopsy. Objective: To examine the relationship between TAB length and 1 year outcomes...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Rheumatology (Oxford, England) England), 2005-07, Vol.44 (suppl-3), p.iii16-iii16
Hauptverfasser:	Dhar, A., Bienfang, D., Batra, K., Chibnik, L., Fossel, A. H., Liang, M. H., Noss, E. H., Padera, R., Docken, W. P.
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Sprache:	eng
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