What is vertigo?

Clinica Terapeutica

Volumn 154, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 341-348

  Salvinelli, F ^a   Firrisi, L ^a   Casale, M ^a   Trivelli, M ^a   D'Ascanio, L ^a   Lamanna, F ^a   Greco, F ^a   Costantino, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

BPPV dizziness; Lightheadedness; Nystagmus; Vertigo

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALCOHOL; ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIPARKINSON AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIAZEPAM; DIGITALIS GLYCOSIDE; DIURETIC AGENT; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; MECLOZINE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; NARCOTIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NORTRIPTYLINE; PROCHLORPERAZINE; PROMETHAZINE; PROPRANOLOL; SULFONYLUREA; TICLOPIDINE; VASODILATOR AGENT; VERAPAMIL;

ANAMNESIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIZZINESS; DYSTONIA; EXERCISE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LABYRINTHECTOMY; MENIERE DISEASE; MIGRAINE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NYSTAGMUS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN; PRESYNCOPE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; TARDIVE DYSKINESIA; UNITED STATES; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR NEURONITIS; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; AGE; AGED; AUDIOMETRY; BODY POSTURE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG THERAPY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ROTATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIME; VESTIBULAR TEST;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUDIOMETRY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIZZINESS; DRUG THERAPY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENIERE'S DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTURE; ROTATION; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 2642556382     PISSN: 00099074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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