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Dizziness, a review of walk-in patients at a specialised neurotology clinic. 2009

R Philip, and N Prepageran

Department of ENT, Universiti Malaya Medical Centre, Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun Ipoh, Jalan Hospital, 30990, Ipoh, Perak. prajan333@yahoo.com

A retrospective review of 100 walk-in patients at a specialized neurotology clinic in dizziness at a tertiary referral centre is presented. The most common cause of dizziness was BPPV, forming 31% of the cases. Other causes in order of frequency include recurrent vestibulopathy, idiopathic causes, Meniere's disease and central causes.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008297	Male		Males
D008875	Middle Aged	An adult aged 45 - 64 years.	Middle Age
D002648	Child	A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL.	Children
D004244	Dizziness	An imprecise term which may refer to a sense of spatial disorientation, motion of the environment, or lightheadedness.	Lightheadedness,Orthostasis,Dizzyness,Light-Headedness,Light Headedness
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000293	Adolescent	A person 13 to 18 years of age.	Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths
D000328	Adult	A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available.	Adults
D000368	Aged	A person 65 years of age or older. For a person older than 79 years, AGED, 80 AND OVER is available.	Elderly
D012189	Retrospective Studies	Studies used to test etiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons.	Retrospective Study,Studies, Retrospective,Study, Retrospective

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