Abstract
Temporal arteritis or also called cranial or giant cell arteritis, is a systemic inflammatory disease of the medium and large arteriies. Incidence of this disease is from 1-30 cases per 100.000 people over the age of 50.
Typical clinical symptoms are fever, headache, anemia, incresead erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein. Among rare belongs ulceration of lip and tongue or skin of the scalp.
Complications of mainly untreated disease is ischemic disorder of optical nerve which can lead to blindness. In our case report we show the case of a 85 year old woman with multiple bilateral skin ulcerations on the head with a delay in the confirmation of diagnosis of temporal arteritis leading to temporal blindness from the left eye