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Br J Ophthalmol 2003;87:373-374 doi:10.1136/bjo.87.3.373
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Surgical performance for specialties undertaking temporal artery biopsies: who should perform them?

  1. K Fong,
  2. V Ferguson
  1. The Western Eye Hospital, Marylebone Road, London NW1 5YE
  1. Correspondence to: Dr Kenneth Fong; fongcsk{at}yahoo.co.uk

    We read with interest the paper by Galloway and colleagues which suggests that ophthalmologists are best suited to perform temporal artery biopsies.1 We recently completed a retrospective study of all the temporal artery biopsies performed at four teaching hospitals (Hammersmith Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital, St Mary’s Hospital and The Western Eye Hospital) in north London between January 1998 and January 2002. Ninety one patients underwent 92 biopsies. Of these, 15 were positive for temporal arteritis implying a 16% positive biopsy rate which …

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