title: Fibromyalgia: a critical digest of the recent literature.
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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pisa, Piza, Italy. l.bazzichi@gmail.com
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bazzichi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sernissi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Consensi
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Giacomelli
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sarzi-Puttini
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D059350:Chronic Pain; D003072:Cognition Disorders; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D015673:Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic; D005356:Fibromyalgia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D019964:Mood Disorders; D039781:PubMed; D013577:Syndrome