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*Treat right away with high dose steroids. | *Treat right away with high dose steroids. | ||
**Biopsy is confirmatory and is still diagnostic if done <7-10 days after treatment starts.<ref name=pmid7921300>{{Cite journal | last1 = Weinberg | first1 = DA. | last2 = Savino | first2 = PJ. | last3 = Sergott | first3 = RC. | last4 = Bosley | first4 = TM. | title = Giant cell arteritis. Corticosteroids, temporal artery biopsy, and blindness. | journal = Arch Fam Med | volume = 3 | issue = 7 | pages = 623-7 | month = Jul | year = 1994 | doi = | PMID = 7921300 }}</ref> | **Biopsy is confirmatory and is still diagnostic if done <7-10 days after treatment starts.<ref name=pmid7921300>{{Cite journal | last1 = Weinberg | first1 = DA. | last2 = Savino | first2 = PJ. | last3 = Sergott | first3 = RC. | last4 = Bosley | first4 = TM. | title = Giant cell arteritis. Corticosteroids, temporal artery biopsy, and blindness. | journal = Arch Fam Med | volume = 3 | issue = 7 | pages = 623-7 | month = Jul | year = 1994 | doi = | PMID = 7921300 }}</ref> | ||
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*Recommended length > 20 mm.<ref name=pmid17501882>{{Cite journal | last1 = Sharma | first1 = NS. | last2 = Ooi | first2 = JL. | last3 = McGarity | first3 = BH. | last4 = Vollmer-Conna | first4 = U. | last5 = McCluskey | first5 = P. | title = The length of superficial temporal artery biopsies. | journal = ANZ J Surg | volume = 77 | issue = 6 | pages = 437-9 | month = Jun | year = 2007 | doi = 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2007.04090.x | PMID = 17501882 }}</ref> | |||
==Microscopic== | ==Microscopic== | ||