Patients with fibromyalgia rarely fulfil classification criteria for axial spondyloarthritis

Rheumatology Oxford Journal

Fecha de publicación: 06 september 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/kex318

Autores: Xenofon Baraliakos, Andrea Regel, Uta Kiltz, Hans-Jürgen Menne, Friedrich Dybowski, Manfred Igelmann, Ludwig Kalthoff, Dietmar Krause, Ertan Saracbasi-Zender, Elmar Schmitz-Bortz, Jürgen Braun

Background: The Assessments of Spondyloarthritis international Society (ASAS) classification criteria for axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) have been criticized because of insufficient differentiation towards FM. The aim of this study was to compare the performance of currently used classification criteria in patients diagnosed with axSpA or FM.

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