Assessment of periodic leg movements is an essential component of an overnight sleep study

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 164, Issue 8 I, 2001, Pages 1339-1340

  Walters, Arthur S ^a,b,c  

^a NEW JERSEY NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NIGHT SLEEP; PERIODIC LEG MOVEMENT; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; WAKEFULNESS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; LEG; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LEG; MOVEMENT; PERIODICITY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP;

EID: 0035888747     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.164.8.2107127a     Document Type: Editorial

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