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Geo-epidemiology of temporal artery biopsy-positive giant cell arteritis in Australia and New Zealand: is there a seasonal influence?

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  • Elisabeth De Smit Department of Ophthalmology, Centre for Eye Research Australia, The University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Linda Clarke Department of Ophthalmology, Centre for Eye Research Australia, The University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Paul G Sanfilippo Department of Ophthalmology, Centre for Eye Research Australia, The University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Tony R Merriman Department of Biochemistry, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Matthew A Brown Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Translational Research Institute, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Catherine L Hill Department of Rheumatology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Alex W Hewitt Department of Ophthalmology, Centre for Eye Research Australia, The University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia School of Medicine, Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Lions Eye Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
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  1. Correspondence to Dr Elisabeth De Smit; elisabethdesmit{at}gmail.com
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De Smit E, Clarke L, Sanfilippo PG Giant Cell Arteritis Pathology Network, et al
Geo-epidemiology of temporal artery biopsy-positive giant cell arteritis in Australia and New Zealand: is there a seasonal influence?
RMD Open 2017;3:e000531. doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2017-000531

Publication history

  • Received June 30, 2017
  • Revision received July 18, 2017
  • Accepted July 18, 2017
  • First published August 29, 2017.
Online issue publication 
July 06, 2018

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