Insomnia and sleeping disorders in the elderly in general practice
✍ Scribed by Gustav Kamenski; Ingrid Pichler; Beate Zöhrer; Frank Dobbs; Rupert Jones
- Publisher
- Springer Vienna
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- German
- Weight
- 94 KB
- Volume
- 154
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0043-5341
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