Poor Predictive Value of Isolated Adventitial and Periadventitial Infiltrates in Temporal Artery Biopsies for Diagnosis of Giant Cell Arteritis

From the Department of Internal Medicine, Unit for Systemic Diseases (UF07), and Department of Pathology, and Department of Internal Medicine, Unit for Autoimmune and Vascular Diseases (UF04), Saint-Louis University Hospital; ECSTRA Team, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Sorbonne Paris Cité Research Center UMR 1153, INSERM, Paris; Department of Pathology, University Hospital Caen, Caen; Department of Biopathology, Léon-Bérard Cancer Center, Lyon, France.
C. Le Pendu, MD, Department of Internal Medicine, Unit for Systemic Diseases (UF07), Saint-Louis University Hospital; V. Meignin, MD, Department of Pathology, Saint-Louis University Hospital; S. Gonzalez-Chiappe, MD, MPH, Department of Internal Medicine, Unit for Systemic Diseases (UF07), Saint-Louis University Hospital; A. Hij, MD, Department of Internal Medicine, Unit for Autoimmune and Vascular Diseases (UF04), Saint-Louis University Hospital; F. Galateau-Sallé, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology, University Hospital Caen, and Department of Biopathology, Léon-Bérard Cancer Center; A. Mahr, MD, MPH, PhD, Department of Internal Medicine, Unit for Systemic Diseases (UF07), Saint-Louis University Hospital, and ECSTRA Team, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Sorbonne Paris Cité Research Center UMR 1153, INSERM.

Address correspondence to Professor A. Mahr, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Saint-Louis, AP-HP, 1 avenue Claude-Vellefaux, 75475 Paris Cedex 10, France. E-mail: alfred.mahr{at}aphp.fr

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