Editorial

The fibromyalgia conundrum

P. Mease¹, D. Buskila², P. Sarzi-Puttini³

¹Director, Division of Rheumatology Research, Swedish Medical Center, and Clinical Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA; ²Rheumatic Disease Unit, Department of Medicine, Soroka Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel; ³Rheumatology Unit, L. Sacco Hospital, Milan, Italy.

Key words

Fibromyalgia, chronic widespread pain, sleep disturbance, fibromyalgia classification criteria

Please address correspondence and reprints requests to: Dr Piercarlo Sarzi-Puttini, U.O. di Reumatologia, A.O. Polo Universitario L. Sacco, 20157 Milano, Italy.

E-mail: sarzi@tiscali.it

Clin Exp Rheumatol 2009; 27 (Suppl. 56): S-2-S-4

© CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RHEUMATOLOGY 2009.