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Introduction Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is an immune-mediated disease primarily affecting medium and large-sized extracranial vessels, commonly the branches of the external carotid artery. Intracranial vessels are usually spared (1–3). Vertebral artery (VA) involvement in GCA is rare compared to the typical affection of the superficial cranial vessels, and only few cases in this patient group have been reported in the literature (2, 4–13).

Mona K. Prünte1, Anne Naumann2, Monika Christ3, Markus Naumann3 and Antonios Bayas3* 1Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysyiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Augsburg, Germany 2Department of Neurology, University Hospital Erlangen, Germany 3Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Augsburg, Germany The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.