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Editor, Senior Moderator
Cureus
. 2023 Feb 7;15(2):e34714.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.34714. eCollection 2023 Feb.
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) Lacking Shoulder Pain Following COVID-19 Vaccination
Kotaro Haruna[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Shogo Shirota[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Hiroaki Nishioka[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
This case highlights a 77-year-old woman with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) following coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination without shoulder pain and its characteristic positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) findings. Some cases of PMR following COVID-19 vaccination have been reported. However, patients without shoulder pain or PET-CT findings without uptake at the shoulders are not described. Our case suggests that PMR should be considered in the differential diagnosis of patients with neck pain following COVID-19 vaccination, even if they lack shoulder pain.
Keywords: covid-19; covid-19 vaccination; fdg-pet; pmr; polymyalgia rheumatica.
. 2023 Feb 7;15(2):e34714.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.34714. eCollection 2023 Feb.
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) Lacking Shoulder Pain Following COVID-19 Vaccination
Kotaro Haruna[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Shogo Shirota[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Hiroaki Nishioka[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 36909027
- PMCID: PMC9996542
- DOI: 10.7759/cureus.34714
Abstract
This case highlights a 77-year-old woman with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) following coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination without shoulder pain and its characteristic positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) findings. Some cases of PMR following COVID-19 vaccination have been reported. However, patients without shoulder pain or PET-CT findings without uptake at the shoulders are not described. Our case suggests that PMR should be considered in the differential diagnosis of patients with neck pain following COVID-19 vaccination, even if they lack shoulder pain.
Keywords: covid-19; covid-19 vaccination; fdg-pet; pmr; polymyalgia rheumatica.