Spontaneous plugging of the horizontal semicircular canal with reversible canal dysfunction and recovery of vestibular evoked myogenic potentials

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 743-747

  Luis, Leonel ^a,b,c   Costa, João ^c   Garcia, Fernando Vaz ^d   Valls Solé, Josep ^e   Brandt, Thomas ^f   Schneider, Erich ^g  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PORTUGAL   (Portugal)

^b Clinical Physiology Translational Unit   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^d EQUI Clínica da Vertigem e Desequilíbrio   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g Lausitz University of Applied Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo; Reflex; Vestibular function tests; Vestibulo ocular

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MALE; NYSTAGMUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIAL; VESTIBULAR TEST;

ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIALS; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 84879210396     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e318287f343     Document Type: Article

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