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​Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Vertigo
PERIPHERAL
• Otitis media
• Acute labyrinthitis
• Vestibular neuronitis
• Benign positional vertigo
• Meniere’s disease
• Ototoxic drugs: streptomycin, gentamicin
• Lesions of the eighth nerve: acoustic neuroma, meningioma, mononeuropathy, metastatic carcinoma
• Mastoiditis
CNS OR SYSTEMIC
• Vertebrobasilar artery insufficiency
• Posterior fossa tumor or other brain tumors
• Infarction/hemorrhage of cerebral cortex, cerebellum, or brainstem
• Basilar migraine
• Metabolic: drugs, hypoxia, anemia, fever
• Hypotension/severe hypertension
• Multiple sclerosis (MS)
• CNS infections: viral, bacterial
• Temporal lobe epilepsy
• Arnold-Chiari malformation, syringobulbia
• Psychogenic: ventilation, hysteria
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