Contribution of the Audiological and Vestibular Assessment to the Differential and Etiological Diagnosis of Peripheric Vestibular Syndromes
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Scope of the study: Vestibular pathology is a complex one, requiring a minute clinical evaluation, as well as numerous paraclinical investigations. The present study analyzes the contribution of the modern methods of vestibular and auditive investigation to the diagnosis of
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