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Prevalence and diagnosis of vestibular disorders in children: a review.

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On the basis of the literature study, when evaluating a young patient with vertigo and dizziness, the otolaryngologist should be aware that, in children, these symptoms are often connected to different pathologies in comparison to the entities observed in the adult population.
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This article is published in International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology.The article was published on 2014-05-01. It has received 109 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo & Vertigo.

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The epidemiology of dizziness and vertigo

TL;DR: In the last decade, population-based epidemiologic studies have complemented previous publications from specialized settings and provided evidence for the high burden of dizziness and vertigo in the community, as well as of comorbid anxiety at the population level.
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Acute Unilateral Vestibulopathy

TL;DR: Key signs and symptoms are an acute onset of spinning vertigo, postural imbalance and nausea as well as a horizontal rotatory nystagmus beating towards the non-affected side, a pathological head-impulse test and no evidence for central vestibular or ocular motor dysfunction.
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Epidemiology of Dizziness and Balance Problems in Children in the United States: A Population-Based Study.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multistage, nationally representative, probability sample of children (n = 10 954; aged 3-17 years) was examined based on the 2012 National Health Interview Survey Child Balance Supplement.
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Epidemiology of Vestibular Impairments in a Pediatric Population.

TL;DR: V Vestibular testing permits ruling out peripheral VI and hence seeking other causes for BDs such as migraine and ophthalmological disorders and also helps lower the risk of inducing bilateral complete vestibular loss in CI protocols.
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Vertigo and dizziness in children.

TL;DR: Pediatricians and neuro-otologists should be aware of the full spectrum of causes of vertigo and dizziness in children and adolescents and take specific approaches for somatoform vertigo, the most frequent diagnosis in adolescent girls.
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Committee on Hearing and Equilibrium guidelines for the diagnosis and evaluation of therapy in Meniere's disease*

TL;DR: This review aims to retain and integrate the methods recommended in the 1972 and 1985 reports, and to be "upwardly compatible" in the sense of computer software, so that existing data could not only be conserved but analyzed in new ways.
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Migraine-associated dizziness.

TL;DR: In this article, two separate pathophysiologic mechanisms for the production of dizziness with migraine were proposed: short-duration vertiginous attacks lasting minutes to 2 hours and temporally associated with headache are due to the same mechanism as other aura phenomena (spreading wave of depression and/or transient vasospasm).
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Benign paroxysmal vertigo of childhood. (a variety of vestibular neuronitis).

L. S. Basser
- 01 Mar 1964 - 
TL;DR: A particular variety of paroxysmal vertigo occurring in childhood, not previously reported, not uncommon, with characteristic and readily recognizable features, and differing from other forms of parxysmal Vertigo found in adult life is described.
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Pediatric migraine equivalents: occurrence and clinical features in practice.

TL;DR: In this article, the occurrence of these migraine equivalents in a single pediatric neurology practice together with their observed clinical features were documented over an 8-year period using a comprehensive, standardized computer database.
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