Alternobaric vertigo - Really a hazard?

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1120-1125

  Klingmann, Christoph ^a   Knauth, Michael ^b   Praetorius, Mark ^a   Plinkert, Peter K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternobaric vertigo; Divers; Diving; Diving accident; Eustachian tube dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADULT; AIR CONDUCTION; ALTERNOBARIC VERTIGO; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BONE CONDUCTION; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVER; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE EAR DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; OCULOGRAPHY; OTOSCOPY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TYMPANOMETRY; VERTIGO;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CALORIC TESTS; COHORT STUDIES; DIVING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NYSTAGMUS, PHYSIOLOGIC; OTOSCOPY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFLEX, ACOUSTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VERTIGO;

EID: 33845238708     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mao.0000235373.78116.a8     Document Type: Article

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