Multinodular goitre with giant cell vasculitis of thyroid arteries in a woman with temporal arteritis

[...]a recent multicentre case-control study on 285 patients with GCA failed to show a significant relation with thyroid diseases. 7 The involvement of non-classical organs in GCA with histologically proved vasculitis has been reported for coronary, renal, hepatic, and female genital tract arteries. 8 As thyroid arteries are branches of the external carotid artery, the occurrence in our observation of GCA and nodular goitre with thyroid arteritis was probably not fortuitous. [...]GCA was seen on the same side of the head and neck (respectively left temporal artery and left superior thyroid artery).