| Boys with pleurodynia may also have pain in the testicles beginning about 2 weeks after the chest pain starts. |
| Epidemic pleurodynia, an acute febrile illness with myalgia caused by picornaviruses such as group B coxsackieviruses, is perhaps best known. |
| In pleurodynia, fever and muscle pain usually last 1 to 2 days, and in herpangina, symptoms generally last 3 to 6 days. |
| Pleurodynia is a related coxsackie virus infection that causes painful spasms in the muscles of the chest and upper abdomen. |
| Epidemic pleurodynia also is called Bornholm disease, Sylvest's disease, devil's grip and epidemic benign dry pleurisy. |
