Dizziness: How do patients describe dizziness and how do emergency physicians use these descriptions for diagnosis?

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Volumn 82, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1313-1315

  Caplan, Louis R ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIZZINESS; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MENIERE DISEASE; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SEIZURE; SENSATION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR NEURONITIS;

EID: 35848940074     PISSN: 00256196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4065/82.11.1313     Document Type: Editorial

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