Brachial plexopathy as a presenting symptom of giant cell arteritis
Chowdhry, I.Ahmad.; Sinha, J.; Barland, P.
Journal of Rheumatology 29(12): 2653-2657
2002
ISSN/ISBN: 0315-162X PMID: 12465169 Document Number: 545310
Clinical manifestations of giant cell arteritis (GCA) include headache, visual symptoms, jaw claudication, scalp tenderness and necrosis, tongue pain, sore throat, and proximal myalgias as part of an associated polymyalgia rheumatica. Symptoms involving the upper extremities also include claudication, presumably secondary to inflammation and narrowing of the subclavian arteries. We describe a patient with symptoms of a brachial plexopathy as the initial manifestations of GCA.