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Table 1.

Conditions That Should Be Considered in the Differential Diagnosis of PMR and GCA.

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMA)	Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA)
Elderly-onset rheumatoid arthritis	Sinusitis
Fibromyalgia	Dental and temporo-mandibular conditions
Shoulder bursitis/tendinitis	Non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy
Cervical spondylosis	Subacute thyroiditis
Ankylosing spondylitis/sacroileitis (early stages)	Chronic infections (infective endocarditis, etc.)
Hypothyroidism	Trigeminal neuralgia
Viral infections, chronic infections	Malignancy
Polymyositis	Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
Malignancy
Amyloidosis

RMMJ Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal Rambam Health Care Campus 2016 October; 7(4): e0035.
Special Issue on Rheumatology Guest Editor: Alexandra Balbir-Gurman, M.D.
ISSN: 2076-9172

Published online 2016 October 31. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10262