The required investigations in temporal arteritis show:
N.B. temporal artery biopsy remains positive for up to 40 hours after the initiation of steroid therapy.
Other advanced investigations include (1):
* prevalence of temporal arteritis with a normal erythrocyte sedimentation rate is unknown but estimated to be 2 to 8.7 percent of all cases of temporal arteritis (2).
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