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VERTIGO |
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labyrinthine disorders: |
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damage or trauma to labyrinth: |
drugs (streptomycin, salicylates, quinine)mumps chronic otitis media cholesteatoma mastoiditis |
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other: |
Meniere's disease benign positional vertigo |
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8th nerve lesions: |
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acoustic neuroma other posterior fossa tumours vestibular neuronitis aminoglycosides |
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brainstem lesions: |
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neoplasms basilar migraine multiple sclerosis aneurysms brainstem encephalitis syringobulbia vascular disease: vertebro-basilar ischaemia, lateral medullary syndrome |
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other: |
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temporal lobe epilepsy |
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'dizziness' without true vertigo can be caused by: |
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certain types of epilepsy fever severe anaemia cardiac outflow obstruction, eg. aortic stenosis psychiatric disease emotional/hysteria |
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