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. 2016 Jun 8;21(Suppl 2):80–86. doi: 10.1007/s00772-016-0143-9

Tab. 5.

American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria for giant cell arteritis and three out of five criteria need to be fulfilled for diagnosis

Age at initial manifestation > 50 years
New onset of headache
Temporal artery anomaly
Elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate
Pathological temporal artery biopsy