TY - JOUR T1 - Response to: ’Artery tertiary lymphoid organs in giant cell arteritis are not exclusively located in the media of temporal arteries' by Graver <em>et al</em> JF - Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases JO - Ann Rheum Dis SP - e17 LP - e17 DO - 10.1136/annrheumdis-2017-211882 VL - 77 IS - 3 AU - Francesco Ciccia AU - Aroldo Rizzo AU - Carlo Salvarani AU - Giovanni Triolo Y1 - 2018/03/01 UR - http://ard.bmj.com/content/77/3/e17.abstract N2 - We thank Graver et al 1 for their interest in our recently published article on artery tertiary lymphoid organs (ATLOs) in giant cell arteritis (GCA).2 The authors stained temporal artery biopsies of 21 biopsy-proven GCA patients (71% female, mean duration of disease of 2.3±0.9 months) that fulfilled the 1990 American College of Rheumatology classification criteria with anti-CD20 and anti-CD3 antibodies. On the basis of this experimental approach, they confirmed the presence of ATLOs only in the adventitia of inflamed arteries of GCA patients and not in the media as demonstrated in our study. This statement, however, is not supported in our opinion by the experimental approach … ER -