Melatonin in children and adolescents with insomnia: A retrospective study

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 51-58

  Ivanenko, Anna ^a   Crabtree, Valerie McLaughlin ^a   Tauman, Riva ^a   Gozal, David ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE;

EID: 0037261133     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000992280304200108     Document Type: Article

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