Is fibromyalgia a distinct clinical entity? Historical and epidemiological evidence

Bailliere's Best Practice and Research in Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 427-436

  Wessely, Simon ^b   Hotopf, Matthew ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chronic fatigue; Classification; Epidemiology; Fibromyalgia; Medically unexplained symptoms; Medically unexplained syndromes

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FATIGUE; FIBROMYALGIA; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; MYALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMPTOM; SYNDROME;

EID: 0033369172     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/berh.1999.0032     Document Type: Article

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