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Takayasu’s Arteritis

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2008 was the 100th anniversary of the first clinical description of nonspecific aortoarteritis by a Japanese scientist, ophthalmologist Mikito Takayasu (Takayasu 1908).

† Fridon Todua was deceased at the time of publication.

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Todua, F., Gachechiladze, D. (2018). Takayasu’s Arteritis. In: Noninvasive Radiologic Diagnosis of Extracranial Vascular Pathologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91367-4_15

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