Sensations in restless legs syndrome

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 402-408

  Karroum, Elias Georges ^a,b,c   Golmard, Jean Louis ^a,b   Leu Semenescu, Smaranda ^a,b,c   Arnulf, Isabelle ^a,b,c  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c INSTITUT DU CERVEAU ET DE LA MOELLE ÉPINIÈRE   (France)

Author keywords

Descriptors; McGill Pain Questionnaire; Neuropathic pain; Qualifiers; Question Douleur Saint Antoine; Restless legs syndrome; Sensations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BURN; COLD SENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ELECTRIC SHOCK; EXHAUSTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MCGILL PAIN QUESTIONNAIRE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVOUSNESS; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PUNISHMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SKIN TINGLING;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AGED; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SENSATION; SENSATION DISORDERS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84859161222     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: 18785506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2011.01.021     Document Type: Article

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