Bedside Diagnosis of Vertigo: Value of the History and Neurological Examination

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1388-1395

  Delaney, Kathleen A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Division of Community Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Dizziness; Position; Stroke; Vertigo; Vestibular organs

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ANAMNESIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NYSTAGMUS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

EID: 0347383752     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/S1069-6563(03)00542-6     Document Type: Article

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