Sleep Medicine
Volume 9, Issue 2 , Pages 188-190 , January 2008

Restless legs syndrome (RLS) with expansion of symptoms to the face

Received 6 December 2006 ,Revised 25 January 2007 ,Accepted 12 February 2007.

References 

  1. Ekbom K. Restless legs: a clinical study. Acta Med Scan Suppl. 1945;158:1–123
  2. Winkelmann J, Wetter TC, Collado-Seidel V, Gasser T, Dichgans M, Yassouridis A, et al. Clinical characteristics and frequency of the hereditary restless legs syndrome in a population of 300 patients. Sleep. 2000;23:597–602
  3. Michaud M, Chabli A, Lavigne G, Montplaisir J. Arm restlessness in patients with restless legs syndrome. Mov Disord. 2000;15:289–293
  4. Allen RP, Picchietti D, Hening WA, Trenkwalder C, Walters AS, Mantplaisi J. Restless legs syndrome: diagnostic criteria, special considerations, and epidemiology: a report from the restless legs syndrome diagnosis and epidemiology workshop at the National Institutes of Health. Sleep Med. 2003;4:101–119
  5. Fukunishi I, Kitaoka T, Shirai T, Kino K. Facial paresthesias resembling restless legs syndrome in a patient on hemodialysis. Nephron. 1998;79:485
  6. Rotenberg JS, Canard K, DiFazio M. Successful treatment of recalcitrant restless legs syndrome with botulinum toxin type-A. J Clin Sleep Med. 2006;2:275–278

PII: S1389-9457(07)00116-5

doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2007.02.013

Sleep Medicine
Volume 9, Issue 2 , Pages 188-190 , January 2008

Article Tools