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. 2011 Jun 14;183(9):E571-92.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.100174. Epub 2011 May 16.

Does my dizzy patient have a stroke? A systematic review of bedside diagnosis in acute vestibular syndrome

Alexander A Tarnutzer  1 , Aaron L Berkowitz, Karen A Robinson, Yu-Hsiang Hsieh, David E Newman-Toker
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Does my dizzy patient have a stroke? A systematic review of bedside diagnosis in acute vestibular syndrome

Alexander A Tarnutzer et al. CMAJ. .
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Figure 1:
Figure 1:
Flow diagram indicating selection of articles. *In two articles, (n = 108), published by a single research group, it is unclear whether each article reports on an entirely distinct or partially overlapping group of patients (see Table 1 for details). There could be as many as 28 patients counted more than once. †The criteria used to assess the strength of the reference standards used to rule in or rule out stroke appear in Appendix 1.
Figure 2:
Figure 2:
Examples of T2-weighted (left) and diffusion-weighted (right) magnetic resonance imaging showing a large left-sided stroke encompassing the territory of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery 24 hours after the patient presented with acute vestibular syndrome. Initial findings were left-beating horizontal nystagmus, absent skew, but normal response to the horizontal head impulse test, as with the fictionalized case described above.
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