Daytime sleepiness: When is it normal? When to refer?

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 543-549

  Benbadis, Selim R ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF COLORECTAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NARCOLEPSY; PATIENT REFERRAL; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDER; SOMNOLENCE;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NARCOLEPSY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 0032214271     PISSN: 08911150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.65.10.543     Document Type: Review

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