TY - JOUR T1 - Tongue infarction due to giant cell arteritis JF - Practical Neurology JO - Pract Neurol SP - 231 LP - 231 DO - 10.1136/practneurol-2015-001304 VL - 16 IS - 3 AU - Altaf Saadi AU - Brett McCray AU - Erik Ensrud AU - Sashank Prasad Y1 - 2016/06/01 UR - http://pn.bmj.com/content/16/3/231.abstract N2 - A 78-year-old woman presented with a painful tongue ulcer and a 6-week history of temporal headaches and jaw claudication. She subsequently developed sudden vision loss in the right eye. Her erythrocyte sedimentation rate was elevated at 94 mm/1st hour (<30). We started her on corticosteroid treatment, and a temporal artery biopsy confirmed a diagnosis of giant cell arteritis. Biopsy of the tongue lesion showed inflammation of the submucosa and skeletal muscle, without evidence of … ER -