Waiting for the evidence: VEMP testing and the ability to differentiate utricular versus saccular function

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 281-283

  Welgampola, Miriam S ^a   Carey, John P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BONE CONDUCTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEURILEMOMA; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OTOLITH; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIAL; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; ANIMAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FOREHEAD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VESTIBULAR NEURONITIS; VESTIBULE;

ANIMALS; BONE CONDUCTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FOREHEAD; HUMANS; SACCULE AND UTRICLE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VESTIBULAR NEURONITIS; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH;

EID: 77955475101     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2010.05.024     Document Type: Article

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