Room tilt illusion as a manifestation of peripheral vestibular disorders

Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology

Volumn 112, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 600-605

  Malis, Didier David ^b   Guyot, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a Faculty of Medicine   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Distortion of verticality; Room tilt illusion; Subjective vertical; Vision disorder; Visual inversion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOLOGY; BODY MOVEMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; ILLUSION; IMPEDANCE AUDIOMETRY; MALE; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SCHOOL CHILD; TINNITUS; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VISUAL DISORDER; VOMITING;

EID: 0037489666     PISSN: 00034894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000348940311200705     Document Type: Article

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