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Nervous System Diseases > Neuromuscular Diseases > Muscular Diseases > Polymyalgia Rheumatica
Musculoskeletal Diseases > Muscular Diseases > Polymyalgia Rheumatica
Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases > Connective Tissue Diseases > Rheumatic Diseases > Polymyalgia Rheumatica
Musculoskeletal Diseases > Rheumatic Diseases > Polymyalgia Rheumatica

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Polymyalgia Rheumatica  

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Entry terms

  • Forestier Certonciny Syndrome
  • Forestier-Certonciny Syndrome
  • Peri-Extra-Articular Rheumatism
  • Rheumatism, Peri Extra Articular
  • Rheumatism, Peri-Extra-Articular
  • Syndrome, Forestier-Certonciny

Scope note

  • A syndrome in the elderly characterized by proximal joint and muscle pain, high erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and a self-limiting course. Pain is usually accompanied by evidence of an inflammatory reaction. Women are affected twice as commonly as men and Caucasians more frequently than other groups. The condition is frequently associated with GIANT CELL ARTERITIS and some theories pose the possibility that the two diseases arise from a single etiology or even that they are the same entity.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011111

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