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We report a case of giant cell arteritis in an 73-year-old woman who presented with acute headache and jaw pain. The case highlights the difficulty in making a rapid diagnosis of giant cell arteritis and the efficacy of early steroid therapy in this vascular autoimmune disease that otherwise the mortality rate remains high for untreated cases.
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Tong, J. et al. (2022). An Elderly Female Presenting with an Acute Headache and Jaw Pain. In: Waśkiel-Burnat, A., Sadoughifar, R., Lotti, T.M., Rudnicka, L. (eds) Clinical Cases in Scalp Disorders. Clinical Cases in Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93426-2_40
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