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GIANT CELL ARTERITIS AND AMYLOIDOSIS
Author(s) -
CID MARIACINTA
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1989.tb00238.x
Subject(s) - medicine , amyloidosis , giant cell arteritis , amyloid (mycology) , dermatology , disease , pathology , vasculitis
Delahunt et al. , ‘recently’ published a very interesting and well documented case of Takayasu's disease associated with amyloidosis. 1, 2 The probable AA type of amyloid substance in their case, as well as the lack of any other chronic process able of producing secondary amyloidosis, strongly suggest a causal relationship between both diseases.