Abstracts tagged "Large vessel vasculitis and ultrasonography"

Abstract Number: 795 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
High Interobserver Agreement on Ultrasonographic Findings in Patients with Large Vessel Vasculitis
Andreas P. Diamantopoulos¹, Julia Geiger², Frode Lohne³, Geirmund Myklebust¹ and Wolfgang A. Schmidt⁴, ¹Rheumatology, Hospital of Southern Norway Trust, Kristiansand, Norway, ²Department of Radiology, University Children's Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland, ³Unilabs Røntgen Kristiansand, Kristiansand, Norway, ⁴Rheumatology, Immanuel Krankenhaus, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose Ultrasound has a high sensitivity and specificity regarding the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis (GCA). Ultrasound can also depict extracranial large vessel vasculitis (LVV)…