Restlessness in right upper limb as sole presentation of restless legs syndrome

Restless legs syndrome (RLS) rarely affects the upper limb during the initial course of disease. We present a patient who complained of symptoms suggesting RLS in the right upper limb as the sole manifestation of illness. Bilateral cervical ribs and depression were co-incidental findings. Patient re...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Ravi, Lahan, Vivekananda, Goel, Deepak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3579060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23546363
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.105625
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description Restless legs syndrome (RLS) rarely affects the upper limb during the initial course of disease. We present a patient who complained of symptoms suggesting RLS in the right upper limb as the sole manifestation of illness. Bilateral cervical ribs and depression were co-incidental findings. Patient responded well to dopaminergic therapy.
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spelling pubmed-35790602013-02-28 Restlessness in right upper limb as sole presentation of restless legs syndrome Gupta, Ravi Lahan, Vivekananda Goel, Deepak J Neurosci Rural Pract Case Report Restless legs syndrome (RLS) rarely affects the upper limb during the initial course of disease. We present a patient who complained of symptoms suggesting RLS in the right upper limb as the sole manifestation of illness. Bilateral cervical ribs and depression were co-incidental findings. Patient responded well to dopaminergic therapy. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3579060/ /pubmed/23546363 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.105625 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Restlessness in right upper limb as sole presentation of restless legs syndrome
title_full Restlessness in right upper limb as sole presentation of restless legs syndrome
title_fullStr Restlessness in right upper limb as sole presentation of restless legs syndrome
title_full_unstemmed Restlessness in right upper limb as sole presentation of restless legs syndrome
title_short Restlessness in right upper limb as sole presentation of restless legs syndrome
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3579060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23546363
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.105625
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