[The utility of a classification scale of lumbar pain for the diagnosis of the fibromyalgia syndrome].
To help fibromyalgia syndrome's diagnosis, the authors propose the use of Back Pain Classification Scale (BPCS), verbal test for pain analysis, able to distinguish between organic and functional disease. Two-hundred patients suspected for fibromyalgia and forty controls completed the questionnaire and so it was possible correctly to distinguish patients with organic disease from those affected by fibromyalgia. The authors conclude that BPCS can represent a useful tool for fibromyalgia diagnosis.
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Istituto di Reumatologia, Università degli Studi di Siena.
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D000328:Adult; D001416:Back Pain / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D005356:Fibromyalgia / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010147:Pain Measurement
Utilità della scala di classificazione del dolore lombare per la diagnosi di sindrome fibromialgica.