Theoretical models for the mechanisms of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo

Audiology and Neuro-Otology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 91-99

  House, Matthew G ^a   Honrubia, Vicente ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Benign positional vertigo; Canalithiasis; Cupulolithiasis; Nystagmus; Semicircular canal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENIGN PAROXYSMAL POSITIONAL VERTIGO; CANALITHIASIS; CUPULOLITHIASIS; EYE MOVEMENT; HEAD MOVEMENT; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE DENSITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR NERVOUS SYSTEM; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

CALCINOSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS; VERTIGO;

EID: 0037236489     PISSN: 14203030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000068998     Document Type: Article

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