More pain, more tender points: Is fibromyalgia just one end of a continuous spectrum?

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 482-485

  Croft, Peter ^b   Burt, Jonathan ^a   Schollum, Joanna ^c   Thomas, Elaine ^a   Macfarlane, Gary ^a   Silman, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c HAYWOOD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TENDER POINT;

EID: 0030011595     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.55.7.482     Document Type: Article

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