Evidence of unilateral isolated utricular hypofunction

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 702-707

  SchÖnfeld, Uwe ^a   Helling, Kai ^b   Clarke, Andrew H ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Otolith dysfunction; Peripheral vestibular lesion; Subjective visual vertical; Unilateral centrifugation; Utricle; Utricle paresis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALORIC VESTIBULAR TEST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INNER EAR DISEASE; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; UNILATERAL UTRICULAR HYPOFUNCTION; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIAL; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; VESTIBULAR LABYRINTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CALORIC TESTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; LABYRINTH DISEASES; MALE; MENIERE DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK MUSCLES; ORIENTATION; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; POSTURAL BALANCE; PROPRIOCEPTION; SACCULE AND UTRICLE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS; VESTIBULAR NERVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952248257     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00016480903397686     Document Type: Article

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