Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: 10-Year experience in treating 592 patients with canalith repositioning procedure

Laryngoscope

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1667-1671

  Prokopakis, Emmanuel P ^a,c   Chimona, Theognosia ^a   Tsagournisakis, Minas ^a   Christodoulou, Panagiotis ^a   Hirsch, Barry E ^b   Lachanas, Vassilios A ^a   Helidonis, Emmanuel S ^a   Plaitakis, Andreas ^a   Velegrakis, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Barbeque roll maneuver; Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo BPPV; Canalith repositioning procedure; Epley maneuver; Long term follow up

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BARBEQUE ROLL MANEUVER; BENIGN PAROXYSMAL POSITIONAL VERTIGO; CANALITH REPOSITIONING PROCEDURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIX HALLPIKE MANEUVER; EPLEY MANEUVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROLL MANEUVER; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; STANDARD; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VERTIGO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTIGO;

EID: 24944559971     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000175062.36144.b9     Document Type: Article

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