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Orbital presentations of giant cell arteritis unusual

Inflammatory signs of the orbit (e.g., proptosis, chemosis, injection) are rarely the presenting findings in giant cell arteritis (GCA). These patients may be misdiagnosed as having orbital inflammatory pseudotumor when the process is really an underlying orbital ischemic or orbital infarction syndrome.

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