Fibromyalgia: a critical digest of the recent literature

CER5322
2011 Vol.29, N°6 ,Suppl.69
PI 0001, PF 0011
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PMID: 22243549 [PubMed]

Received: 22/12/2011
Accepted : 22/12/2011
In Press: 09/01/2012
Published: 05/01/2012

Abstract

Fibromyalgia is a common syndrome characterised by widespread pain and a constellation of other symptoms and overlapping conditions that contribute to complicate the diagnosis, the assessment and the treatment. Furthermore, the etiological causes for the moment only consist of assumptions, and the underlying pathogenetic mechanisms still remain to be clarified. For the above-mentioned reasons, with the present review we sought to provide an overview of the literature on fibromyalgia from both the pre-clinical and clinical studies indexed in PubMed during the last year, classifying original articles and reviews into etiopathogenesis, assessment and therapy.