Pediatric vestibulopathy and pseudovestibulopathy: Differential diagnosis and management

Current Opinion in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 304-309

  Worden, Brian F ^a   Blevins, Nikolas H ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Pediatric; Vertigo; Vestibular

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; GADOLINIUM; IBUPROFEN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PARACETAMOL; RIZATRIPTAN; STEROID; SUMATRIPTAN; VALACICLOVIR;

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; BENIGN PAROXYSMAL VERTIGO OF CHILDHOOD; BRAIN INFECTION; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CHIARI FROMMEL SYNDROME; CHOLESTEATOMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GLIOMA; HEARING LOSS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HUMAN; INNER EAR DISEASE; LABYRINTHECTOMY; LOCOMOTION; MASTOIDECTOMY; MENIERE DISEASE; MIGRAINE; MONOTHERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; STABILOGRAPHY; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; VESTIBULAR NEURONITIS; VESTIBULAR NYSTAGMUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; OTOSCOPY; VESTIBULAR DISEASES; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 34548498601     PISSN: 10689508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOO.0b013e3282bf139e     Document Type: Review

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