GIANT-CELL ARTERITIS AND CROHNS-DISEASE - UNREPORTED ASSOCIATION

  • 1 January 1980
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 78  (4) , 796-802
Abstract
A 16-yr-old patient had coexistent Crohn''s disease and giant cell arteritis. The unusual features of the case include the presence of giant cell arteritis of temporal arteritis type in the bowel wall, the young age of the patient and the previously unreported association of these 2 pathologic processes.