Douleurs chroniques diffuses. Complexité du diagnostic. Chronic widespread pain: Complexity of diagnosis
(2011) Louvain médical — Vol. 130, n° 9, p. 339-348 (2011)
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- Chronic widespread pain is frequent in the general population, and is observed with a prevalence of 10%. The symptom "pain" is a characteristic of many conditions which can sometimes be caused by different neurophysiological mechanisms. Widespread pain is a frequent symptom in different diseases (i.e. neurological, rheumatismal, infectious, neoplastic or hormonal diseases) in which lesions can be observed. It is also a symptom in different pathologies in which lesions have not been identified but which present central sensitization such as fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia patients also present symptoms which are identical those of other diseases; fibromyalgia also frequently co-exists with other diseases. The purpose of this article is to provide clinicians with a set of diagnostic tools that will be help them distinguish fibromyalgia from other associated conditions.
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De Wilde, V.-A., & Masquelier, E. (2011). Douleurs chroniques diffuses. Complexité du diagnostic. Chronic widespread pain: Complexity of diagnosis. Louvain médical, 130(9), 339-348. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/38156 (Original work published 2011)