We were highly surprised on reading the recent article by Peralta et al., 1 in which an augmented prevalence of restless legs syndrome (RLS) in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) has been reported, without mentioning at all (and consequently having excluded) the well-established conditions causi
Restless Legs Syndrome and Parkinson’s Disease: Is there an etiologic link?
✍ Scribed by Eng-King Tan
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 254 KB
- Volume
- 253
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-5354
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