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Letter to the Editor
Monckeberg’s sclerosis in temporal artery biopsy specimens
  1. BIENVENIDO V CASTILLO, JR,
  2. ELISE TORCZYNSKI,
  3. DEEPAK P EDWARD
  1. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
  1. Dr Deepak P Edward, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1855 W Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.83.9.e1088

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    Editor,—Temporal artery biopsies are performed routinely on patients suspected of having giant cell arteritis. Of 131 pathology specimens examined at University of Illinois at Chicago Eye Center from 1975 to 1998, the most common diagnosis was atherosclerosis with myointimal fibrosis (63%) followed by giant cell arteritis (13%). In about 6% of cases we encountered calcific sclerosis confined to …

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