Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: Some recent advances

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-3

  Bronstein, Adolfo M ^a  

^a CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EDITORIAL; NYSTAGMUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; STONE FORMATION; VERTIGO;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY; HEAD MOVEMENTS; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; SACCULE AND UTRICLE; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS; VERTIGO;

EID: 0037322835     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019052-200302000-00001     Document Type: Editorial

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