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Treatment: | Treatment: | ||
*Treat right away with high dose steroids. | *Treat right away with high dose steroids. | ||
**Biopsy is confirmatory. | **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> | ||
==Microscopic== | ==Microscopic== | ||