Chronic fatigue syndrome is commonly diagnosed in patients with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome hypermobility type/joint hypermobility syndrome

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 597-598

  Castori, Marco ^a   Celletti, C ^b   Camerota, F ^b   Grammatico, P ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b POLICLINICO UMBERTO I   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHRALGIA; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSAUTONOMIA; EHLERS DANLOS SYNDROME; FATIGUE; HEADACHE; HEMORRHOID; HERNIA; HUMAN; JOINT HYPERMOBILITY; LETTER; MYALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; RECTUM PROLAPSE; SORE THROAT; UTERUS PROLAPSE; VARICOSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; EHLERS-DANLOS SYNDROME; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051831964     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: 1593098X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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