title: Study of labyrinthine function in children using the caloric test: our results.
abstract: We studied caloric responses in a group of 42 healthy children aged between 4 and 14 years and compared the results with those obtained with the same method and equipment in a control group of 57 healthy adults at the Methodist Hospital Electronystagmography Laboratory at Houston (Texas). The average response in children appeared to be rather low. The confidence regions for unilateral weakness (UW) and directional preponderance (DP) measures were much wider in children than in adults. The confidence limit for bilateral weakness (BW) was lower in the children. The confidence limit for the fixation index (FI) in the children, however, was close to that in adults.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Largo Gerolamo Gaslini, Genoa, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Melagrana
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: D'Agostino
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pasquale
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Taborelli
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002150:Caloric Tests; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D007758:Ear, Inner / Q000502:physiology*; D004584:Electronystagmography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male