Fibromyalgia

Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Volumn 1, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Häuser, Winfried ^a,b   Ablin, Jacob ^c   Fitzcharles, Mary Ann ^d   Littlejohn, Geoffrey ^e   Luciano, Juan V ^f   Usui, Chie ^g   Walitt, Brian ^h  

^a KLINIKUM SAARBRÜCKEN   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^e SOUTHERN HEALTH   (Australia)

^f PARC SANITARI SANT JOAN DE DÉU   (Spain)

^g JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NURSING RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC PAIN; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPLICATION; FATIGUE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; SLEEP DISORDER;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC PAIN; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; FATIGUE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; SLEEP WAKE DISORDERS;

EID: 84959223828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2056676X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrdp.2015.22     Document Type: Article

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