[Benign paroxysmal vertigo in children].
Based on our examination of 176 patients, we first selected, according to the general standards of diagnosing benign paroxysmal vertigo of childhood (children aged up to ten years, paroxysmal vertigo, ataxia) a group of 78 patients. Using multidisciplinary approach we have thus performed in these children the following examinations: an exhaustive anamnesis, laboratory examinations, clinical ORL (ENT), ophthalmological, neuropediatric examinations, x-ray of the cranium and the temporal bone, audiometric, vestibulogenic and EEG examinations. In the following stage we have, on the basis of the obtained data, selected 22 patients who met the restrictive standards for the diagnosis of a benign paroxysmal vertigo of childhood (typical clinical picture, isolated vestibular symptomatology, exclusion of the etiological factors, benign course of the disease). In our material the age range was between the second and the sixth year. After the sixth year of age we have not had any case of benign paroxysmal vertigo. We have not arrived at any significant fact which would indicate an etiological factor. There is no significant difference in the frequency of the disease between the two sexes, but we may assert that small girls slightly prevail. Normal psychomotoric development, normal intellectual faculties, absence of risk factors (only a twin had lower birth weight), absence of neurological abnormalities, regular EEG findings, pathological findings of the vestibular excitability together with absence of cochlear symptomatology, and evident clinical symptoms obviously indicate the right diagnosis. The evolution of the disease is exceptionally favorable.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Kirincić
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Kriz
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Paucić-Kirincić
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D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014717:Vertigo / Q000209:etiology*
Benigna paroksizmalna vrtoglavica u djece.