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Sifting the wheat from the chaff? Evidence for the existence of an asymmetric fibromyalgia phenotype.
European journal of pain (London, England) - 1 Sept 2020
H Kaziyama Helena, Barbour Julio, Galhardoni Ricardo, Aparecida da Silva Valquíria, R D Tesseroli de Siqueira Silvia, Listik Clarice, Dos Santos Gabriel José, Yeng Lin T, Marcolin Marco Antonio, Raicher Irina, Teixeira Manoel J, Ciampi de Andrade Daniel
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The different phenotypic presentations of fibromyalgia (FM) have been infrequently studied and may have diagnostic and therapeutic implications. The aim of this study was to explore differences between FM patients with classical symmetric (s-FM) presentation and FM patients with marked asymmetric (a-FM) pain. METHODS: We performed two consecutive cross-sectional studies on FM patients and matched...
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