@article{article_278926, title={Attention: It May Be Takayasu}, journal={Ankara Medical Journal}, volume={16}, year={2016}, DOI={10.17098/amj.54993}, author={Öztürk, Onur and Öztürk, Gülşah and Selçuk, Mustafa Yasin and İğde, Füsun Artıran}, keywords={Takayasu arteriti,sırt ağrısı,kas ağrısı}, abstract={<p>Takayasu Arteritis (TA) is a chronic major vein vasculitis mainly characterized by elastic artery involvement such as aorta, main branches of aorta and pulmonary arteries. Yearly incidence of the disease is 2.6/million and it is mostly seen in females between 20-30 years of age. Morbidity of the disease is related to organ ischemia development due to arterial stenosis. Systemic symptoms in acute period and different symptoms according to localization of the stiff veins in chronic period occur. Our aim in this compilation was to cover TA demonstrating itself as a back and shoulder pain based on our 20 year-old male case. </p>}, number={2}, publisher={Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi}