Clinical characteristics of positional vertigo after mild head trauma

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 377-381

  Suarez, Hamlet ^a   Alonso, Rafael ^b   Arocena, Mariana ^a   Suarez, Alejo ^a   Geisinger, Dario ^a  

^a British Hospital Montevideo   (Uruguay)

^b UDELAR   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

BPPV; chronic dizziness; symptom recurrence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN PAROXYSMAL POSITIONAL VERTIGO; CANALITHIASIS; CHI SQUARE TEST; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INNER EAR DISEASE; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; URUGUAY; VERTIGO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952685710     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00016489.2010.534113     Document Type: Article

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