Fibromyalgia in hepatitis C virus infection: Another infectious disease relationship

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 157, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 2497-2500

  Buskila, Dan ^a,b   Shnaider, Alla ^a   Neumann, Lily ^a   Zilberman, Doron ^a   Hilzenrat, Nir ^a   Sikuler, Emanuel ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYALGIA; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYNDROME;

EID: 0030698770     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.157.21.2497     Document Type: Article

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