Reumatismo (Sep 2011)

Symptoms and signs in fibromyalgia syndrome

  • G. Leardini,
  • G. Arioli,
  • L. Altomonte,
  • S. Stisi,
  • G. Biasi,
  • M. Di Franco,
  • M. Cazzola,
  • M. Spath,
  • D. Buskila,
  • M.A. Giamberardino,
  • R. Torta,
  • F. Marinangeli,
  • F. Salaffi,
  • R.H Gracely,
  • R. Carignola,
  • L. Bazzichi,
  • R. Casale,
  • A. Alciati,
  • P. Sarzi-Puttini,
  • G. Cassisi,
  • R. Gorla,
  • A. Marsico,
  • F. Ceccherelli,
  • F. Atzeni

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4081/reumatismo.2008.1s.15
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 60, no. 1s
pp. 15 – 24

Abstract

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Fibromyalgia (FM) is currently classified as chronic widespread pain with widespread allodynia/hyperalgesia to pressure pain and is categorized among the large group of soft-tissue pain syndromes. FM remains an elusive condition of unknown etiology in which patients report not only chronic widespread pain but also a variety of other complaints, so that it is one of several relatively common overlapping syndromes characterized by otherwise unexplained chronic pain and fatigue (1, 2)...