Neurasthenia: Cross-cultural and conceptual issues in relation to chronic fatigue syndrome

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 249-255

  Starcevic, Vladan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Institute of Mental Health   (Yugoslavia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; NEURASTHENIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW;

EID: 0032832634     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0163-8343(99)00012-2     Document Type: Article

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