[Pericarditis: a giant cell arteritis manifestation].

Introduction: Temporal arteritis is a vasculitis in which inflammatory manifestations mainly involve the external carotid artery area but not exclusively. Through a clinical observation and a review of the literature, we suggest that inflammatory pericarditis could represent a manifestation of temporal arteritis.

Exegesis: A 75-year-old-woman was admitted for progressive physical deterioration which had been evolving for three months, associated with fever, frontotemporal cephalalgia and severe biological inflammatory syndrome.