Head-Shaking aids in the diagnosis of acute audiovestibular loss due to anterior inferior cerebellar artery infarction

Audiology and Neurotology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 114-124

  Huh, Young Eun ^a   Koo, Ja Won ^b   Lee, Hyung ^c   Kim, Ji Soo ^a  

^a Departments of Neurology   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

^c Keimyung University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Anterior inferior cerebellar artery; Nystagmus; Stroke; Vertigo; Vestibulopathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; ARTICLE; CALORIC VESTIBULAR TEST; CEREBELLUM FLOCCULUS; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEAD IMPULSE TEST; HEAD SHAKING NYSTAGMUS; HUMAN; LABYRINTHITIS; MALE; NYSTAGMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; ACUTE DISEASE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; HEAD MOVEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION; VERTIGO; VERY ELDERLY; VESTIBULE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBELLUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, NEUROLOGICAL; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; INFARCTION, POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; LABYRINTHITIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; STROKE; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR DISEASES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871855068     PISSN: 14203030     EISSN: 14219700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000345643     Document Type: Article

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