Periodic limb movement disorder can and should it be treated?;Periodiske beinbevegelser under søvn kan og skal de behandles?

Tidsskrift for den Norske Laegeforening

Volumn 121, Issue 18, 2001, Pages 2169-2172

  Bjorvatn, Bjørn ^a,b   Holsten, Fred ^a,b   Skeidsvoll, Håvard ^a,c  

^a Nattlandsveien 8 ^*  (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; PARASOMNIA; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDER;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; NOCTURNAL MYOCLONUS SYNDROME; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 7444269127     PISSN: 00292001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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