Inflated superficial temporal artery

Introduction Giant cell arteritis headache is a side or both sides of the ankle, forehead or occipital tension pain or superficial burning pain, local pain can sometimes touch the surface of the redness of the painful nodules or nodular swelling The superficial temporal artery and so on.

Cause

Giant cell arteritis, also known as temporal arteritis. The cause is unknown, mostly in the elderly. In the population over 50 years old, the incidence rate can reach 15-30/100,000 people per year, and the ratio of male to female is 1:3, mainly invading the large and middle arteries, including the cerebral arteries, especially the sputum. The arteries, the branches of the aorta that go to the neck and upper limbs, sometimes involve the aorta, rarely invade the skin, kidneys, and lungs.

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Related inspection

Brain CT examination of brain MRI

Radial artery biopsy shows vasculitis, which is characterized by infiltration of monocytes, or granulomatous inflammation, and often has multinucleated giant cells.

Differential diagnosis

Bean vein artery occlusion: the central branch of the middle cerebral artery is called the lateral bean vein artery, which can be divided into two groups: internal and external. They wear a fabric that is worn in front of the lenticular nucleus, the caudate nucleus and the inner sac of the body for 2/3 of the forelimbs and hind limbs. Most of the blood vessels in the brain occur in the bean vein arteries. Therefore, some people call the bean vein artery a "bleeding artery."

"E" sign: esophageal barium meal examination is often shown in the aortic constriction area, the enlarged thoracic descending aorta or the enlarged right intercostal artery after stenosis, the pressure footprint formed on the left wall of the esophagus, called the "E" Sign. For congenital aortic stenosis.

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