Bilateral multicanal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo coexisting with a vestibular schwannoma: Case report

Ear, Nose and Throat Journal

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Karatayli Ozgursoy, Selmin ^a   Stamper, Greta C ^a   Lundy, Larry B ^a   Zapala, David A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN PAROXYSMAL POSITIONAL VERTIGO; CASE REPORT; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HEAVY-HEADEDNESS; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; UNSTEADINESS; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULAR NYSTAGMUS;

EID: 79751511926     PISSN: 01455613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014556131109000114     Document Type: Article

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