Horton’s disease – 40 clinical cases
Keywords:
arteritis, Horton, atypical features, steroidsAbstract
The authors present 40 cases of Horton’s disease observed between 1984 and 2002 in the
Internal Medicine Department 2 and Autoimmunity outpatient clinic of Santo António dos
Capuchos Hospital.
The purpose of the study is to present a general overview of clinical, diagnostic and
therapeutic procedures and to compare our experience with the data from the literature.
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