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ThoraxPublished 1 August 1998Open access
D J Hendrick, David M. Mitchell
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Since this is an historic meeting which will address one of the most important clinical issues in the field of sleep medicine, it is appropriate to examine how the authors arrived at this moment, and a brief review of the history of sleep Medicine is presented.
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