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Clinical and Therapeutic Aspects of Childhood Narcolepsy-Cataplexy: A Retrospective Study of 51 Children

Adi Aran, Mali Einen, Ling Lin, Giuseppe Plazzi, Seiji Nishino, Emmanuel Mignot

SLEEP · 2010 · 285 citations · 32 references

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Abstract

this study reports on the clinical features of childhood narcolepsy and documents the safe use of treatments commonly used in adults in young children.

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