The four diagnostic criteria for Restless Legs Syndrome are unable to exclude confounding conditions ("mimics")

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 976-981

  Hening, Wayne A ^a   Allen, Richard P ^b   Washburn, Mystinna ^b   Lesage, Suzanne R ^c   Earley, Christopher J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Differential diagnosis; Family study; Positive predictive value; Restless legs; Specificity; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG CRAMP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP DISORDER; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POSTURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REST; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP;

EID: 65749111503     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2008.09.015     Document Type: Article

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