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Primary Systemic Al Amyloidosis Presenting as Temporal Arteritis

Author(s) -

Hakan Emmungil,

Melike Kalfa,

Burcu Başarık,

Hasip Kahraman,

Ferhat Tanhan,

Banu Yaman,

Atiye Öztürk,

Zehra Erdemir,

Gülşen Kandiloğlu,

Vedat İnal,

Yasemin Kabasakal

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

case reports in rheumatology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2090-6889

pISSN - 2090-6897

DOI - 10.1155/2014/549641

Subject(s) - giant cell arteritis , arteritis , medicine , biopsy , amyloidosis , gold standard (test) , dermatology , systemic vasculitis , vasculitis , pathology , systemic disease , radiology , disease

Temporal arteritis is most common vasculitis in elderly and imitated by miscellaneous disorders. Temporal artery biopsy is the gold standard test in the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis (GCA). Hereby, we describe a case of a 67-year-old man who presented initially with temporal arteritis; however, a lip biopsy then revealed AL amyloidosis. In this respect, temporal artery biopsy should be performed for definitive diagnosis of GCA particularly patients with systemic symptoms and treatment resistant.

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