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Forestier-Certonciny syndrome
Also known as:
Bargantum’s syndrome
Barber's syndrome
Forestier's syndrome
Associated persons:
H. Stuart Barber
Unknown Bargantum
Sir David Bruce
A. Certonciny
Jacques Forestier
Description:
A syndrome of pain and stiffness of the shoulder an hip girdle; occasionally, severe and incapacitating. Fatigue, anorexia, weight loss, muscular stiffness and tenderness, and fever. Horton’s syndrome frequently associated. Absence of joint deformity. Onset acute or insidious. Affects mostly elderly persons.
Bibliography:
- W. Bruce:
College of GP research Newsletter (9: 157);
British Medical Journal, London, 1888, 2: 811.
- J. Forestier, A. Certonciny:
Pseudopolyarthrite rhizomelique.
Revue du rhumatisme et des maladies osteo-articulaires, Paris, 1953, 20: 854-862.
- H. S. Barber:
Myalgic syndrome with constitutional effects. Polymyalgia rheumatica.
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, London, 1957, 16: 230-237.
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