TY - JOUR T1 - Monckeberg’s sclerosis in temporal artery biopsy specimens JF - British Journal of Ophthalmology JO - Br J Ophthalmol SP - 1088 LP - 1088 DO - 10.1136/bjo.83.9.e1088 VL - 83 IS - 9 AU - BIENVENIDO V CASTILLO, JR AU - ELISE TORCZYNSKI AU - DEEPAK P EDWARD Y1 - 1999/09/01 UR - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/83/9/1088.9.abstract N2 - 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 … ER -