Is Lumbar Puncture Indicated in Examination of Dizzy Patients?

Ojala, Matti

doi:10.1159/000116384

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“…The patients were examined by electronystagmography, brainstem auditory evoked potentials, electroencephalography, blood tests, pure tone audiometry and analysis of cerebrospinal fluid in almost all cases, and by magnetic resonance imaging or computed tomography in 78 cases. These results have been reported separately (7)(8)(9).…”

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Posturography and the dizzy patient: a neurological study of 133 patients

Ojala

Matikainen

Juntunen

1989

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

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A total of 133 dizzy patients under the age of 60 years were examined using a stable balance plate (posturography, PG). All the patients were thoroughly examined neurologically before PG and classified into 7 diagnostic categories. Comparison was made between these categories and PG results. The referent group consisted of 116 healthy individuals. The patients with CNS lesions had more body sway than controls or the patients with peripheral vestibular lesions, whose sway did not significantly differ from that of the controls. The PG parameters that most clearly separated the patients from the controls were the total length of the movement of the center of gravity, and the sway in lateral and antero-posterior directions. Analysis of the frequency of the sway or calculation of the Romberg index did not reveal significant differences between the categories. Men swayed more than women. Age did not correlate with PG results. Stable posturography offers useful quantitative supplementary information as a part of the examination of a dizzy patient. Increased body sway suggests a lesion in the CNS.

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