Review Revised criteria for suspicion of non-benign positional vertigo
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A. SOTO-VARELA, M. ROSSI-IZQUIERDO, I. SÁNCHEZ-SELLERO and S. SANTOS-PÉREZ From the Division of Neurotology, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Department of Dermatology and Otorhinolaryngology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hospital Lucus Augusti, Lugo, Spain and Department of Pathology and Forensic Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Revised criteria for suspicion of non-benign positional vertigo.
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