Temporal Artery Biopsy
A 81-year-old woman had mild fever, hypersedimentation and occasional left-sided temporal headache. The temporal artery is located with a doppler stethoscope. After a superficial incision with a lancet, blunt dissection with scissors is used to expose the artery. The artery is typically tortuous and weakly pulsatile. The artery is lifted with a blunt instrument, and both ends are tied using resorbable sutures. The removed section of the artery is fixed with formaldehyde. In this patient the histology was normal.
Temporal artery biopsy
Primary/Secondary Keywords
- video
- Temporal artery
- Temporal artery biopsy
- Biopsy
- Temporal arteritis
- Doppler stethoscope