Decline in semicircular canal and otolith function with age

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 832-839

  Agrawal, Yuri ^a   Zuniga, Maria Geraldine ^a   Davalos Bichara, Marcela ^a   Schubert, Michael C ^a   Walston, Jeremy D ^a   Hughes, Jennifer ^a   Carey, John P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Otolith; Semicircular canal; Vestibular dysfunction

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIAL; VESTIBULAR TEST; VESTIBULE; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIALS; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 84862834160     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e3182545061     Document Type: Article

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