[The correlation of Doppler's blood flow distempers in vertebral arteries with degenerative cervical spine changes of patients undergoing treatment for tinnitus].
120 patients aged 20-81 years were treated at the Otolaryngology Clinic of the CM UJ in years 1994-1996 for tinnitus. The radiological method showed degenerative changes of the cervical spine in 100 of them. The otolaryngological and neurological methods excluded any reason of tinnitus other than distempers of vertebrobasilar arterial system. The ACUSON 128 XP/10 (Duplex Scan + Color Doppler) was used during examination of blood flows in vertebrobasilar arterial system. The correlation index was calculated as a proportion between the number of patients with pathological vertebral artery blood flow and the total number of patients. For all patients aged 20-81 it was 45.0%. The correlation index for the subsequent age groups grew proportionally to the age of patients, reaching values from 0% to 73.7%.
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Klinika Otolaryngologii CM UJ w Krakowie.
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Olszewski
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Maga
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Modrzejewski
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014012:Tinnitus / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014711:Vertebral Artery / Q000502:physiology*