A simplified diagnostic approach to dizziness in children

Vertigo in childhood: A retrospective series of 100 children

“…In most studies in children, MRI reveals an occasional incidental finding. 5 Thus, MRI should be preceded by comprehensive examination and applied to selected patients to reduce its substantial overuse in vertigo.…”

“…11 Algorithms based on clinical features and associated symptoms have been offered to provide a standard approach for the evaluation of childhood vertigo. 4,5,37 We developed an algorithm based on data obtained from this study and the growing literature, based on history, examinations, and diagnostic tests such as ECG, EEG and imaging (Fig. 2).…”

Electronystagmography finding in children with peripheral and central vestibular disorders

“…remember that vertigo is rather an abstract concept for a small child, who is unable to distinguish between vertigo and a feeling of fear [1,2].…”

“…The evaluation of vertigo in children requires a careful anamnesis together with an evaluation of clinical signs and diagnostics tests: audiometry, tympanometry and electronystagmography (ENG) are the most helpful diagnostic tests [1][2][3].…”

“…The differential diagnosis of vertigo in children is extensive: otitis media and middle ear effusion could be the most common causes of vertigo in children, but there are some problems in detecting the other causes for vertigo because they are one of most frequent diseases of childhood. In children with normal eardrums, who not show otitis media or middle ear effusion, vertigo is most commonly caused by migraine and benign paroxysmal vertigo of childhood (BPVC): these findings show to be very different from those with adult vertigo [1][2][3][4].…”