title: Evaluation of the dizzy patient.
abstract: The differential diagnosis of dizziness is difficult, yet challenging. There continues to be a need for improvement in assessment and evaluative procedures for patients with symptoms of dizziness. The otologist must exclude a wide variety of potential disorders which could be sources of the symptoms. The key to a well-made differential diagnosis is a very carefully taken, thorough, medical history, and the integration of that history with the physical examination, the audiometry, and the vestibular evaluation.
mesh_terms: D001300:Audiometry, Evoked Response; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004244:Dizziness / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D004423:Ear / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004428:Ear Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory; D005990:Glycerol; D006320:Hearing Tests; D006801:Humans; D002534:Hypoxia, Brain / Q000175:diagnosis; D007759:Labyrinth Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D008487:Medical History Taking; D008575:Meniere Disease / Q000175:diagnosis; D010808:Physical Examination; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014724:Vestibular Function Tests
chemical_list: D005990:Glycerol