Forestier-Certonciny syndrome
Alternative eponyms
- Bargantum’s syndrome
- Barber's syndrome
- Forestier's syndrome
Related people
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.
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.
