title: [Clinical features of chronic fatigue syndrome--symptoms].
abstract: Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a clinically defined condition characterized by long-lasting disabling fatigue, resulting in severe impairment in daily functioning and associated symptoms such as memory and concentration difficulties, muscle aches, sleep disturbances, and headache. Common symptoms encountered in CFS patients were reviewed and top 10 common symptoms were described in detail with special reference to the particular features of each symptom helpful to diagnose CFS.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine.
authors.forename: Nobutaro
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ban
authors.forename: Takuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Saiki
authors.forename: Gyoshin
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ko
authors.forename: Ai
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kuwahata
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety; D001288:Attention; D003863:Depression; D005221:Fatigue; D015673:Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology*; D005334:Fever; D006261:Headache; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders