The Sleepy Teenager – Diagnostic Challenges
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The Sleepy Teenager – Diagnostic Challenges
The sleepy teenager puts the doctor in a, often tricky, situation where it must be decided if we deal with normal physiology or if we should suspect pathological conditions. What medical investigations are proper to consider? What differential diagnoses should be considered in the first place? And what tools do we actually have? The symptoms and problems that usually are presented at the clinic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Neurology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1664-2295
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2014.00140