Case Reports in Medicine
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 290719, 4 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/290719
Case Report
Restless Legs Syndrome as the Initial Presentation of Multiple Sclerosis
Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Beşevler, 06500 Ankara, Turkey
Received 16 June 2013; Accepted 26 November 2013
Academic Editor: Hans-Joachim Mentzel
Copyright © 2013 Ceyla Irkec et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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