Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) Lacking Shoulder Pain Following COVID-19 Vaccination

Kotaro Haruna; Shogo Shirota; Hiroaki Nishioka

doi:10.7759/cureus.34714

Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) Lacking Shoulder Pain Following COVID-19 Vaccination

Cureus. 2023 Feb 7;15(2):e34714. doi: 10.7759/cureus.34714. eCollection 2023 Feb.

Authors

Kotaro Haruna¹, Shogo Shirota¹, Hiroaki Nishioka¹

Affiliation

¹ General Internal Medicine, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, Hyogo, JPN.

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.

Publication types

Case Reports