American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 250-255 , July 2009

Revisiting benign paroxysmal positional vertigo pathophysiology

  • Tal Marom, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Edith Wolfson Medical Center, Tel-Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, Holon, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Edith Wolfson Medical Center, Tel-Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, P.O. Box 5, Holon 58100, Israel.
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  • Yahav Oron, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Edith Wolfson Medical Center, Tel-Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, Holon, Israel
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  • Waseem Watad, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Edith Wolfson Medical Center, Tel-Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, Holon, Israel
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  • Dalia Levy, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Edith Wolfson Medical Center, Tel-Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, Holon, Israel
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  • Yehudah Roth, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Edith Wolfson Medical Center, Tel-Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, Holon, Israel
    • Department of Public Health Services, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Received 27 April 2008

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PII: S0196-0709(08)00110-5

doi: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2008.06.009

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 250-255 , July 2009

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