Campbell S M, Clark S, Tindall E A, Forehand M E, Bennett R M
Arthritis Rheum. 1983 Jul;26(7):817-24. doi: 10.1002/art.1780260701.
Twenty-two patients with fibrositis, selected from a general medical outpatient population by a screening questionnaire and subsequent evaluation, were compared with age-, sex-, and clinic-matched patients without fibrositis. Although there was a high prevalence of musculoskeletal complaints in both groups, the fibrositis patients had a uniform constellation of symptoms, including axial pain, severe aching and stiffness, morning fatigue, and modulation by specific factors. They also had a higher incidence of tension headache and irritable bowel syndrome. The use of a dolorimeter demonstrated that fibrositis patients had many more areas of localized tenderness than control patients, but also that fibrositis patients did not have diffusely diminished pain threshold and tolerance. Using the criteria of this study, fibrositis appears to be a common and readily definable syndrome within the spectrum of soft tissue rheumatism.
通过筛查问卷及后续评估，从普通内科门诊患者中选取了22例纤维肌痛患者，并与年龄、性别和诊所匹配的无纤维肌痛患者进行比较。尽管两组患者肌肉骨骼方面的主诉都很常见，但纤维肌痛患者有一系列一致的症状，包括轴向疼痛、严重酸痛和僵硬、晨起疲劳以及特定因素的调节作用。他们紧张性头痛和肠易激综合征的发病率也更高。使用痛觉计显示，纤维肌痛患者局部压痛的部位比对照组患者多得多，但纤维肌痛患者并没有广泛降低的痛阈和耐受性。根据本研究的标准，纤维肌痛似乎是软组织风湿病范围内一种常见且易于定义的综合征。
