Dizziness in the older person

Reviews in Clinical Gerontology

Volumn 15, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 187-206

  Lawson, Joanna ^a   Bamiou, Doris Eva ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; CINNARIZINE; CYCLIZINE; DIMENHYDRINATE; HYPNOTIC AGENT; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROCHLORPERAZINE; PROMETHAZINE; SCOPOLAMINE; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; AGED; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; BENIGN PAROXYSMAL POSITIONAL VERTIGO; CEREBELLUM INFARCTION; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIZZINESS; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYNDROME; GAIT DISORDER; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INNER EAR DISEASE; MENIERE DISEASE; MIDDLE EAR DISEASE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRESYNCOPE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SYNCOPE; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

EID: 33845872316     PISSN: 09592598     EISSN: 14699036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959259806001791     Document Type: Review

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