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Case Reports
. 2020 Feb 24;192(8):E182-E186.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.190334.

Clinical diagnosis of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and vestibular neuritis

Peter Johns  1 , James Quinn  2
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Case Reports

Clinical diagnosis of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and vestibular neuritis

Peter Johns et al. CMAJ. .
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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1:
Flow chart of the initial approach to the diagnosis of acute vertigo. With permission from Tintinalli JE, Ma OJ, Yealy DM, et al. Tintinalli’s emergency medicine: a comprehensive study guide, 9th edition. New York: McGraw Hill; 2020. Note: BPPV = benign paroxysmal positional vertigo; HINTS plus = head impulse, nystagmus and test of skew, with plus refering to a test of recent hearing loss; HIT = head impulse test.
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