Abstracts tagged "Fibromyalgia and ultrasound"

Abstract Number: 2072 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Ultrasound Assessment of Both Hands in Fibromyalgia Patients: What Could We Detect?
Maximiliano Bravo¹, Javier Rosa², Santiago Ruta¹, Ricardo Garcia-Monaco³ and Enrique Soriano¹, ¹Rheumatology Unit, Internal Medical Services, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ²Rheumatology Unit, Internal Medicine Service, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ³Radiology and Imagenology Department, Hospital italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Background/Purpose: pain is the hallmark symptom of fibromyalgia (FM). The relationship with inflammation and/or structural changes in patients with fibromyalgia with pain localized in the hands is…