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Figures will be in papers by Prof Schmidt from the Charite Hospital in Berlin. Don't have them on the tip of my tongue (or fingers!). There is a characteristic "halo" sign around the artery and you can see reduced flow in the artery using power Doppler. The artery wall can be thickened but that's sometimes more difficult to be certain about. Lesley -----Original Message----- From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Saul Galloway Sent: 07 May 2008 14:08 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Temporal arteritis U/S as a Doppler or looking at the artery wall? And does it have a good SPIN or SNOUT ? -----Original Message----- From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of [log in to unmask] Sent: 07 May 2008 08:10 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Temporal arteritis some places now do temporal artery ultrasound either as an alternative to biopsy or as a guide to where to do the biopsy. It reduces the false negative "skip lesion" biopsy and is non-invasive. Haven't ultrasounded a tongue yet though. Lesley > At 13:49 06/05/2008, you wrote: >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ********************************************************************** This message may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please accept our apologies. Please do not disclose, copy or distribute information in this e-mail or take any action in reliance on its contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please inform us that this message has gone astray before deleting it. Thank you for your co-operation. NHSmail is used daily by over 100,000 staff in the NHS. Over a million messages are sent every day by the system. To find out why more and more NHS personnel are switching to this NHS Connecting for Health system please visit www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/nhsmail **********************************************************************