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Posttraumatic DizzinessVestibular, Audiologic, and Medicolegal Aspects
Joseph U. Toglia, MD;
Philip E. Rosenberg, PhD;
Max L. Ronis, MD
Arch Otolaryngol. 1970;92(5):485-492.
Abstract
Careful and thorough examination of vestibular and auditory functions in patients with craniocervical trauma has become increasingly important due to the large number of these complaints and the rather substantial percentage of patients who seek financial compensation through the courts, It has been our experience that patients complaining of dizziness and related disorders following a closed-head injury or a whiplash injury usually have verifiable physiologic explanations for their symptomatology. Few of these patients show normal electronystagmographic (ENG) or audiologic examinations. Few of these patients demonstrate symptoms based solely upon emotional or psychological factors. The majority of complaints are the result of demonstrable physiologic pathological findings of the auditory and vestibular systems.
Author Affiliations
Philadelphia
From the Neurosensory Division (Drs. Toglia and Ronis) and the Section of Audiology (Dr. Rosenberg), Temple University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Philadelphia.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication June 22, 1970.
Read before the IX International Congress of Otolaryngology, Mexico City, June 1969.
Reprint requests to Department of Neurology, Temple University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19140 (Dr. Toglia).
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