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Katrina F L Butler1, Rachel L Humphriss, Graham Lennox
1Department of Audiology, Addenbrooke's NHS Trust, Cambridge, UK. katy.butler@addenbrookes.nhs.uk
The Journal of Laryngology and Otology
|December 24, 2005
Abstract:
The results of vestibular investigations in a patient with confirmed lateral medullary syndrome are presented. This patient showed a unilateral weakness on caloric testing which has not been reported previously in a patient with lateral medullary syndrome. The case for the possibility of a 'central' canal paresis on caloric testing is presented.
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