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[The objective method for differential diagnostics of vestibular and psychogenic (phobic) dizziness]
Vestnik Otorinolaringologii
|June 9, 2012
Abstract:
The results of the study opening up new possibilities for differential diagnostics of vestibular and psychogenic dizziness are presented. A specially developed combined approach was used including a set of highly informative stabilometric tests for the verification of pathological changes in the vestibular analyzer, such as Romberg test with both open and closed eyes, tandem test, head turn and tilt tests. The groups of the subjected enrolled in the study were shown to possess statistically different stabilometric characteristics.
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