Clinical Study
Vertigo in Children and Adolescents: Characteristics and Outcome
Table 3
Previous studies on dizziness and vertigo in children and adolescents.
| | Number of patients | Most common etiologies | |
| | | Peripheral vestibulopathy | 29% | O’Reilly et al., 2011 [10] | 132 | MAV/BPVC | 24% | | | Developmental delay | 11% |
| | | Labyrinthitis/neuritis | 22% | Szirmai, 2010 [9] | 145 | MAV | 19% | | | Panic or anxiety disorder | 17% |
| | | MAV | 25% | Wiener-Vacher, 2008 [26] | >2000 | BPVC | 20% | | | Trauma | 10% |
| | | Viral infections | 28% | Balatsouras et al., 2007 [23] | 54 | MAV | 20% | | | BPVC | 17% |
| | | BPVC | 21% | Niemensivu et al., 2007 [13] | 24 | MAV | 17% | | | Otitis media | 17% |
| | | MAV | 34% | Erbek et al., 2006 [6] | 50 | BPVC | 12% | | | Psychogenic vertigo | 10% |
| | | BPVC | 19% | | 119 | MAV | 14% | Riina et al., 2005 [14] | | Vestibular neuritis | 12% | | | Otitis media | 10% | | | Psychogenic vertigo | 5% |
| | 55 | MAV | 31% | Choung et al. 2003 [12] | | BPVC | 26% | | | Trauma | 7% |
| | | Otitis media | 15% | Bower and Cotton, 1995 [15] | 34 | BPVC | 15% | | | MAV | 12% |
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MAV: migraine-associated vertigo. BPVC: benign paroxysmal vertigo of childhood.
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