Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo following whiplash injury: A myth or a reality?

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 376-380

  Dispenza, Francesco ^a   De Stefano, Alessandro ^b   Mathur, Navneet ^c   Croce, Adelchi ^b   Gallina, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^c RNT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN PAROXYSMAL POSITIONAL VERTIGO; CERVICOGENIC VERTIGO; DISEASE DURATION; DIZZINESS; DIZZINESS HANDICAP INVENTORY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; VERTIGO; WHIPLASH INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NYSTAGMUS, PHYSIOLOGIC; PATIENT POSITIONING; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; VERTIGO; WHIPLASH INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052149746     PISSN: 01960709     EISSN: 1532818X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2010.07.009     Document Type: Article

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