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[Rheumatic polymyalgia is a rarely diagnosed, but often occurring disease in elderly patients.]
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Verification of the diagnosis of rheumatic polymyalgia at the reception of a general practitioner, geriatrician presents significant difficulties due to the lack of pathognomonic signs of the disease. The «calling card» of the disease is a combination of severe pain in the proximal muscle groups in combination with a high acute inflammatory response.