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Postgraduate Medicine Volume 51, 1972 - Issue 6
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Polymyalgia rheumatica

Charles M. PlotzState University of New YorkDownstate Medical Center, Brooklyn
, M.D.
Pages 108-111 | Published online: 16 May 2016
 
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Abstract

Polymyalgia rheumatica has a peculiar predilection for the elderly and is characterized by severe proximal muscle pain and an unusually high erythrocyte sedimentation rate. The cause of the pain is unknown, but daily prednisone therapy brings complete relief. A correlation does exist between polymyalgia rheumatica and giant-cell arteritis, but the exact nature of the correlation is speculative.

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