The natural history of asymptomatic positron emission tomography: positive giant cell arteritis after a case of self-limiting polymyalgia rheumatica

Vol.22 No.6

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The natural history of asymptomatic positron emission tomography: positive giant cell arteritis after a case of self-limiting polymyalgia rheumatica

Authors

Hiroyuki Yamashita¹ , Mariko Inoue¹ , Yuko Takahashi¹ , Toshikazu Kano¹ , Akio Mimori¹

Division of Rheumatic Diseases, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, 1-21-1 Toyama, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 162-8655, Japan

Received:

29 February 2012

Accepted:

28 May 2012

Published online:

19 June 2012

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Key words

Polymyalgia rheumatic - Giant cell arteritis - Temporal arteritis (TA) - Histopathology - Radionuclide imaging