Abstract
Eight consecutive patients referred for neurological opinion because of very severe “restless legs” all suffered from chronic pulmonary disease. It was considered that the restless legs syndrome was not a metabolic consequence of respiratory failure but a nervous manifestation of their invalidism.
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