CRANIAL ARTERITIS
- 17 January 1948
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 136 (3) , 169-171
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1948.72890200007006
Abstract
The clinical syndrome of cranial arteritis has been described as "a rare, febrile, self-limited disease of variable duration and unknown etiology."1It has been observed to occur in both sexes, only in persons over the age of 50 years, and the local manifestations are usually associated with systemic symptoms and signs such as fever, malaise, lassitude, sweating and weakness. A mild leukocytosis is often seen. Horton, Magath and Brown2first described the clinical entity of temporal arteritis in 1932, and recently Dantes3stated that 36 patients with this disease had been reported in the literature. Some observers4have expressed the belief that the arteritis of the temporal artery may be part of a generalized process and that the clinical involvement of that artery is merely a local manifestation of an underlying widespread process. In many of the patients ocular disturbances are present, and these range fromKeywords
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