The Video Head Impulse Test (vHIT) Detects Vertical Semicircular Canal Dysfunction

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  MacDougall, Hamish Gavin ^a   McGarvie, Leigh Andrew ^b   Halmagyi, Gabor Michael ^b   Curthoys, Ian Stewart ^a   Weber, Konrad Peter ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GAZE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR RIGHT POSTERIOR VESTIBULAR CANAL; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; RECORDING; RIGHT ANTERIOR LEFT POSTERIOR VESTIBULAR CANAL; SCLERAL SEARCH COIL RECORDING; VERTICAL SEMICIRCULAR CANAL DYSFUNCTION; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VESTIBULAR TEST; VIDEO HEAD IMPULSE TEST; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS; VESTIBULAR DISEASES; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84876450915     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061488     Document Type: Article

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