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Se deben presentar movimientos oculares involuntarios inconfundibles después de colocarse aire o agua caliente o fría dentro de los oídos.
Nota: los rangos de los valores normales pueden variar ligeramente entre diferentes laboratorios. Hable con el médico acerca del significado de los resultados específicos de su examen.
Los resultados anormales pueden ser un signo de daño al nervio del oído interno u otras partes del cerebro que controlan los movimientos oculares.
Cualquier enfermedad o lesión que dañe el nervio auditivo puede causar vértigo y pueden ser:
Otras afecciones bajo las cuales se puede realizar el examen son:
Griggs RC, Jozefowicz RF, Aminoff MJ. Approach to the patient with neurologic disease. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier. 2007: chap 418.
Sanders DB, Howard JF Jr. Neuro-otology: laboratory investigations in diagnosis and management of neuro-otological disorders. In: Bradley WG, Daroff RB, Fenichel GM, Jankovic J, eds. Bradley: Neurology in Clinical Practice. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Butterworth-Heinemann Elsevier; 2008:chap 40.
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