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Applications of vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials in vestibulogy. 1. Basic principles.

Mario Milkov

Abstract

Diagnosis of vestibular disorders represents a serious challenge for modern otoneurology. In the recent decades, there is a gradual enrichment of the diagnostic tools enabling the objective assessment of the physiology of the vestibular system under normal and pathological conditions. Here belong the vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs). In the first of a series of review papers on this hot topic, the basic peculiarities of both types of the VEMPs, the cervical and ocular VEMPs, are summarized.

Keywords

vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials, cervical vestibular- evoked myogenic potentials, ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials, vestibular disorders, diagnosis

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14748/orl.v14i2.6774

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