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Péricles Maranhão-Filho1, Raj Nandi2, Eliana T Maranhão3
1Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho, Departamento de Clínica Médica, Serviço de Neurologia, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brasil.
Arquivos De Neuro-Psiquiatria
|September 20, 2018
Abstract:
The main objective of this manuscript is to describe some personal and professional aspects of two outstanding researchers and pioneers in neuro-otology. Among other achievements, Margaret Ruth Dix, and Charles Skinner Hallpike, designed the most-used provocative test for positional nystagmus for the diagnosis of lithiasis in the vestibular posterior semicircular canal.