Sleep Medicine Reviews
Volume 13, Issue 6 , Pages 421-426 , December 2009

Socio-professional handicap and accidental risk in patients with hypersomnias of central origin

  • Virginie Bayon

      Affiliations

    • Université Paris Descartes- Faculté de Medecine, APHP - Hôtel Dieu- Centre du Sommeil et de la Vigilance, Paris, France
    • Centre de référence hypersomnies rares, France
    • ,
  • Damien Léger

      Affiliations

    • Université Paris Descartes- Faculté de Medecine, APHP - Hôtel Dieu- Centre du Sommeil et de la Vigilance, Paris, France
    • Centre de référence hypersomnies rares, France
    • ,
  • Pierre Philip

      Affiliations

    • Clinique du Sommeil, CHU Pellegrin, Place Amélie Raba Léon, CNRS UMR-5227, Université Bordeaux 2, 33076 Bordeaux Cedex, France
    • Centre de référence hypersomnies rares, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Clinique du Sommeil, CHU Pellegrin, Place Amélie Raba Léon, CNRS UMR-5227, Université Bordeaux 2, 33076 Bordeaux Cedex, France.

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doi: 10.1016/j.smrv.2009.02.001

Sleep Medicine Reviews
Volume 13, Issue 6 , Pages 421-426 , December 2009

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