The Sport’s Bar Grandpa: an unusual left temporo-mandibular and tongue pain

Abstract

This case report describes the condition of an elderly patient admitted to hospital for a new onset headache and pain in the left temporo-mandibular joint, initially incorrectly interpreted as an angioedema, but that evolved into a tongue infarction.

Keywords

• giant cell arteritis, GCA, polymyalgia rheumatica, Horton’s temporal arteritis, cranial arteritis, large-vessel arteritis and aortitis.