Stenosing arteritis of the subclavian-axillary arteries (polymyalgia rheumatica sive arteritica)

Hamrin, B.

Acta Chirurgica Scandinavica. Supplementum 465: 80-83

1976


ISSN/ISBN: 0301-1860
PMID: 1069442
Document Number: 96693
According to recent investigations a stenosing arteritis of the subclavian-axillary arteries almost always is only one localization and an extreme variant of a systemic vascular disease, affecting aorta and large arteries, by pathologists called giant-cell arteritis or non-syphilitic aortitis and arteritis. The clinical manifestation of this disease process is often limited to a "painful shoulder syndrome".

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