A previously healthy 59-year-old man was admitted to this hospital with fever, weight loss, and painful swelling of both eyes and the right ear. Six weeks earlier, headache and fever had developed, followed by pain in the neck, pain and swelling of the eyes, and pain in the right ear; symptoms did not respond to antibiotic therapy. Laboratory studies on admission disclosed an elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate and anemia. A diagnostic procedure was performed.
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