Bilateral vestibular hypofunction: Insights in etiologies, clinical subtypes, and diagnostics

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn 7, Issue MAR, 2016, Pages

  Lucieer, F ^a   Vonk, P ^a   Guinand, N ^b   Stokroos, R ^a   Kingma, H ^a,c   van de Berg, Raymond ^a,c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bilateral vestibular areflexia; Bilateral vestibular hypofunction; Bilateral vestibular loss; Bilateral vestibulopathy; Caloric tests; Etiology; Head impulse test; Vestibular migraine

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BILATERAL VESTIBULAR HYPOFUNCTION; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CALORIC VESTIBULAR TEST; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FEMALE; GENETIC DISORDER; HEAD IMPULSE TEST; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFECTION; INFRATENTORIAL VASCULAR LESION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENIERE DISEASE; MENINGIOMA; MIGRAINE; NEUROIMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; OSCILLOPSIA; OTOTOXICITY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SUPRATENTORIAL VASCULAR LESION; TORSION SWING TEST; UNILATERAL VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMA; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR TEST;

EID: 84966318699     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2016.00026     Document Type: Article

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