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Traumatic Forms of Vertigo

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These disorders include posttraumatic benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, traumatic labyrinthine, or vestibular nerve failure, e.g., in petrous bone fractures, perilymph fistulas, decompression sickness with alternobaric vertigo, and the heterogeneous syndromes of posttraumatic cervicogenic and psychogenic vertigo syndromes.

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  1. Clinical Neurosciences and Center for Vertigo & Balance Disorders, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Thomas Brandt MD, FRCP

  2. Department of Neurology and Center for Vertigo & Balance Disorders, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Marianne Dieterich MD & Michael Strupp MD

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Brandt, T., Dieterich, M., Strupp, M. (2013). Traumatic Forms of Vertigo. In: Vertigo and Dizziness. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-591-0_4

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