title: [An etiological analysis of 367 neurological outpatients with complaint of vertigo].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the etiology of patients with chief complaint of vertigo in the department of neurology in order to reduce the rate of misdiagnosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 367 patients with chief complaint of vertigo in our department of neurology were followed up. The associated medical history, symptoms and physical examination were obtained.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The main diagnoses for the 367 patients were benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) (219, 59.7%), posterior circulation ischemia (PCI) (65, 17.7%), migraine (31, 8.4%), hypertension (18, 4.9%) and psychogenic vertigo (17, 4.6%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Presentation of vertigo can be clinically diagnosed in most diseases, with the most common cause of BPPV. Combination of the prominent clinical features, physical examinations and especially Dix-Hallpike maneuver may guide the general physicians to a most proper cause of vertigo.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Navy General Hospital, Beijing 100037, China.
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Qiu
authors.forename: Xiao-Kun
authors.initials: XK
authors.lastname: Qi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D002546:Ischemic Attack, Transient / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008881:Migraine Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D010045:Outpatients; D014717:Vertigo / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*