Normative results of healthy older adults on standard clinical vestibular tests

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 297-300

  Davalos Bichara, Marcela ^a   Agrawal, Yuri ^a  

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

Author keywords

Aging; Bucket test; Dizziness; Falls; Head impulse test; Romberg; Vestibular dysfunction

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; VERY ELDERLY; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR TEST; VESTIBULE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; VESTIBULAR DISEASES; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH;

EID: 84894072278     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e3182a09ca8     Document Type: Article

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