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Neurophysiologic evidence for a central sensitization in patients with fibromyalgia
Authors
Desmeules, Jules Alexandre
Cedraschi, Christine
Rapiti Aylward, Elisabetta
Baumgartner, E
Finckh, Axel
Cohen, Paul
Dayer, Pierre
Vischer, T L
Published in Arthritis and Rheumatism. 2003, vol. 48, no. 5, p. 1420-1429
Abstract To determine whether abnormalities of peripheral and central nociceptive sensory input processing exist outside areas of spontaneous pain in patients with fibromyalgia (FM) as compared with controls, by using quantitative sensory testing (QST) and a neurophysiologic paradigm independent from subjective reports.
Keywords Female — Fibromyalgia/complications/physiopathology/therapy — Humans — Hyperalgesia/etiology/physiopathology — Male — Middle Aged — Nociceptors/physiopathology — Outpatients — Pain/physiopathology — Pain Measurement — Pain Threshold/physiology — Quality of Life — Reflex/physiology — Self Care — Sickness Impact Profile — Surveys and Questionnaires
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PMID: 12746916
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Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département d'anesthésiologie, pharmacologie et soins intensifs
Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de médecine interne générale, de réhabilitation et de gériatrie
Research groups Groupe Desmeules Jules (pharmacologie/toxicologie) (567)
Groupe Bouchardy Magnin Christine (Registre genevois des tumeurs) (532)
Mécanisme de l'inflammation articulaire (44)
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(ISO format) 		DESMEULES, Jules Alexandre et al. Neurophysiologic evidence for a central sensitization in patients with fibromyalgia. In: Arthritis and Rheumatism, 2003, vol. 48, n° 5, p. 1420-1429. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:90111

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