REVIEW - Polymyalgia rheumatica versus late-onset RA

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Rheumatology (2009) 48 (2): 93-95.

doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/ken294

Polymyalgia rheumatica vs late-onset rheumatoid arthritis

Polymyalgia rheumatica differs from RA

Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a well-defined acute musculoskeletal

inflammation of ageing people and characterized by clinical symptoms

that may create some difficulties in the differential diagnosis with

late (elderly) onset RA (LO-RA or EO-RA, respectively) as well as with

LO-RA with PMR-like onset (LO-RA/PMR) [1].

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http://rheumatology.oxfordjournals.org/content/48/2/93.full

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