Sleep Medicine
Volume 5, Issue 5 , Pages 429-430 , September 2004

Restless legs syndrome: the most common and least diagnosed sleep disorder

  • W.A. Hening

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,Accepted 2 July 2004.

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PII: S1389-9457(04)00132-7

doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2004.07.011

Sleep Medicine
Volume 5, Issue 5 , Pages 429-430 , September 2004

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