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A case of juvenile temporal arteritis with anterior scleritis Volume 31, numéro 2, March-April 2021

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1 Department of Dermatology, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan
2 Department of Medicine and Engineering Combined Research, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan
3 Department of Ophthalmology, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan

Juvenile temporal arteritis (JTA), first proposed by Lie et al. [1], commonly occurs in young adults, without eye symptoms. Herein, we report a patient with JTA accompanied by anterior scleritis, distinguishable from giant cell arteritis (GCA). A 45-year-old Japanese man visited our hospital with a three-month history of protracted right bulbar conjunctival hyperaemia (figure 1A, B) despite treatment with glucocorticoid and antibiotic eyedrops. Simultaneously, he had painful cord-like nodules on [...]