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. 2022 Mar 21;194(11):E420.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.211483.

Giant cell arteritis presenting with progressive dysphagia and tongue necrosis

Caroline Payen  1 , Florentin Kucharczak  1 , Valentin Favier  2
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Giant cell arteritis presenting with progressive dysphagia and tongue necrosis

Caroline Payen et al. CMAJ. .
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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1:
Figure 1:
(A) White-coated lesion of the left border of the tongue in a 72-year-old man with 5-week progressive solid food dysphagia. (B) Secondary necrosis of the left border of the patient’s tongue, 2 days later.
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