Cranial Arteritis With Liver Involvement

1 March 1972

journal article
research article
Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Stroke

Vol. 3 (2) , 131-134
https://doi.org/10.1161/01.str.3.2.131

Abstract

An elderly man with cranial nerve palsies was found to have cranial arteritis. Laboratory studies established concurrent liver disease which improved with treatment. The liver and brain stem pathology is discussed.

Keywords

STEROID THERAPY
VASCULAR DISEASE
ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE
TEMPORAL ARTERITIS
GIANT-CELL ARTERITIS
LIVER BIOPSY
LIVER SCAN
LIVER DISEASE

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