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An elderly man presented with classic findings of acute temporal arteritis.Treponema pallidumwas identified both in the superficial temporal artery and in the aqueous humor, when stained with fluorescein tagged anti-T pallidumglobulin. Study of nine cases of biopsy proven temporal arteritis revealed reactive serum fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption (FTA-ABS) tests in four cases. The clinical significance of these observations is evident.
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Smith et al. (1967) studied this question.